CRLRC/2639/2017 of KURUVA LOKANATHAM, KURNOOL TOWN., Vs THE STATE OF AP., REP PP.,

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.SRINIVAS CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.2639 of 2017 ORDER: Assailing the Judgment, dated 13.09.2017 in Criminal Appeal No.74 of 2015on the file of the Court of I Additional Sessions Judge, Kurnool, modifying the conviction imposed against the petitioner in Sessions Case No.110 of 2011, vide judgment dated 24.03.2015 by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Kurnool, for the offence under Section 354 of Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as “IPC”), the petitioner/accused filed the present criminal revision case under Section 397 read with 401 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. 2. The revision case was admitted on 20.10.2017. 3. The shorn of necessary facts are that: i). PW1 is the defacto complainant and she was working as Assistant Project Director in District Women Development and Child Welfare Department, Kurnool and she was enlisted as Junior Assistant in the department in 1989 and now working as Senior Assistant on deputation. Accused is also working as Senior Assistant in the same office and as he being the senior in the office, used to harass PW1 for each and everything and even used to touch her hands unnecessarily and praises her 2 beauty dir