Appellant/State feeling aggrieved by the judgment of

Trial Court on the file of Prl.Sessions Judge, Bengaluru

Rural District, Bengaluru, in S.C.No.59/2014, dated

20.04.2016 preferred this appeal.

Parties to the appeal are referred with their

ranks as assigned in the Trial Court for the sake of

convenience.

3. The factual matrix leading to the case of

prosecution can be stated in nutshell to the effect that on

intervening night of 04.11.2010 and 05.11.20210, the

complainant with his friends CW.4 N.R.Honnasiddaiah and

CW.5 Ranganatha Rao went to Tumakuru and after taking

food they were returning to their village. The complainant

alone was going in his car bearing No.K.A.04-M.G.2727,

while CW.4 N.R.Honnasiddaiah and CW.5 Ranganatha Rao

were in another car. On the way near Rayarapalya Gate,

six persons who came on two motor cycle waylaid and out

of them four persons got down and pushed the

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complainant to the back seat of his car. One of them drove

the car up to Shivaganga and the remaining three

persons snatched the cash of Rs.25,000/-, gold chain and

mobile set from the complainant. Thereafter, they pushed

him into the eucalyptus grove near Gottigere cross. They

left the