THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V. VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL APPEAL No.539 OF 2014

JUDGMENT:

This Criminal Appeal is filed seeking to set aside the judgment dated 21.04.2014 in Sessions Case No.7 of 2013 on the file of the learned Special Judge For Trial of Offences under S.Cs. & S.Ts. (PoA) Act-cum-VI Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Secunderabad (for short, “the trial Court”) wherein and whereby, the appellant/accused is found guilty for the offence under Section 324 of I.P.C., convicted under Section 235(2) Cr.P.C. and sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for a period of one year.

2. Heard Ms.Padmalatha Yadav, learned Legal Aid counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant and Mr.E.Ganesh, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for respondent-State.

3. The brief facts of the case are that on 06.03.2012 while PW2 was cleaning the car parking at Platform No.10 side, the appellant/accused threatened her with a blade; that she informed the same to her husband/PW1. On 07.03.2012 at 11:30 P.M., PW1 found the accused near Saluja Nursing Home and questioned him. It is stated that the accused beat him with a stone and tried to kill him, due to which, PW1 joined in the Hospital and