DEVAN S Vs. KRISHNA MENON C

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Order of the Court was pronounced by Basant, J.

(2.) These interesting questions arise for consideration in this revision petition which has come up before us on a reference by a learned Single Judge, who appears to have doubted the correctness of the decision in Thomas Varghese,s case (Supra).

(3.) We have heard the Senior Counsel Sri G. Janardhana Kurup for the revision petitioner/accused and Smt. Saritha David Chungath for the respondent/ complainant The parties shall be referred to in this order as accused and complainant respectively for the sake of easy reference.