O R D E R

This criminal revision petition is filed against the concurrent finding of the courts below. The revision petitioner is the accused in CC 431/1998 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-I, Kanjirappally. The conviction was under Section 324 of IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 2 years. Against the said order, an appeal Crl.A.99/2000 was filed before the Additional Sessions Court (Spl), Kottayam, which was not successful. Hence this criminal revision petition.

2. When the criminal revision petition came up for hearing, the learned counsel appearing for the revision petitioner submitted before me that the circumstances and other attending aspects were not properly considered by the courts below, thereby caused prejudice to the accused. It is also the submission that the appreciation of the evidence can be only termed as perverse. To substantiate the submissions, the learned counsel brought to my notice that as per F.I. Statement and as per the evidences of PW1, the injured, and the alleged eyewitness PW2, it can be seen that the accused as well as his wife was constructing a kayyala. It can be further seen that they were forced to const