AND

ORDER

OF

CONVICTION

DATED

09.02.2018 PASSED BY THE II ADDL. SESSIONS JUDGE

KALABURAGI

IN

S.C.NO.48/2016

CONVICTING

THE

APPELLANT/ACCUSED FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE

UNDER SECTION 324 READ WITH SECTION 34 OF IPC.

THIS

APPEAL,

COMING

ON

FOR

DICTATING

JUDGMENT, THIS DAY, THE COURT DELIVERED THE

FOLLOWING:

JUDGMENT

Heard Sri Ashok B. Mulage, learned counsel for

appellants and Smt. Anita M. Reddy, learned High Court

Government Pleader for respondent - State.

2.

The appellants/accused Nos.1 and 2 have filed

this appeal under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal

Procedure, 1973, (for short 'Cr.P.C.') praying to set aside

the judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed

by the learned II Additional Sessions Judge, Kalaburagi

(for short 'Trial Court'), in Special Case (SC/ST)

No.48/2016 dated 09.02.2018 and to acquit the appellants

- 3 -

of the offence punishable under Section 324 of the Indian

Penal Code, 1860, (for short 'IPC').

3.

For the sake of convenience, the parties are

referred to as per their status before the Trial Court.

Appellants are accused No.1 and 2 and respondent is

complainant - State.

4.

The brief facts of the prosecution case are as

under:

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