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This Criminal Revision Case has been filed by the petitioner/accused challenging the judgment passed by the learned I Additional District and Sessions Judge, in Crl.A.No.165 of 2011 dated 16.02.2017, confirming the Judgment passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate-II, Vellore, in C.C.No.53 of 2007 dated 20.07.2011, wherein, the petitioner was convicted and sentenced to undergo one year Rigorous Imprisonment and imposed to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, and in default to undergo Simple Imprisonment for one month for each of the offences under Sections 408 and 477-A IPC and both the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioner was appointed as Secretary in Chengam Agricultural Producers Co-operative Marketing Society and functioned as the Secretary from 01.04.2001 to 30.01.2004. PW1-Mr.Pandurangan, Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Tiruvannamalai, had passed an order under Section 81 of the Tamil Nadu Co- operative Societies Act 1983, and nominated PW6-Mr.Banu, to conduct enquiry relating in connection with certain irregularities in the Chengam Agricultural Products and Marketing Co-operative Society vide Ex.P1 procee