This Criminal Revision Petition has been filed under Sections
397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, challenging the
judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed against the
revision petitioner for the offences punishable under Sections 332
and 333 of the IPC and Sections 137 and 147 of the Railways Act,
by the Principal Assistant Sessions Court, Ernakulam, as per
judgment dated 14.07.2016 in S.C. No.173/2014, which was partly
confirmed in appeal by the Additional Sessions Court-VIII,
Ernakulam, by judgment dated 19.03.2019 in Crl. Appeal
No.224/2016. The revision petitioner is the sole accused in the said
case.
2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that, on 05.04.2013, at
about 4:15 p.m., while the accused was travelling in the S-11
coach of the Bangalore-Trivandrum Express Train, PW1 and PW2,
who were police officers in charge of the said coach, inspected the
passengers in the said coach and found that the accused was
illegally travelling without a ticket for the sleeper coach. When the
accused was subjected to questioning, the accused splashed chilli
spray on their faces, and when PW1 & PW2 intercepted the
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accused, the accused took out a foreign-made knife and stabbed on
PW2’s forearm, causing grievous injuries, and also attacked PW1,
causing him injuries, so as to escape from the custody of PW1 and
PW2. Thus, the accused is alleged to have committed the aforesaid
offences.
