(1.) This application is filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
(2.) The applicant herein is the accused in Crime No.1187 of 2018 of the Karunagapally Police Station registered for the offences punishable under Sections 294(b), 324, 427, 451 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code.
(3.) The victim is a lady aged about 45 years. She is a cancer patient and is running a petty shop. Her husband is sick and ailing and is unemployed. On 21.08.2018, at 4 p.m., the applicant herein is alleged to have trespassed into her shop and attacked her. Her clothes were torn off and she was pushed on her chest. Thereafter, he is alleged to have destroyed the fridge as well as the coffee maker and the materials kept in the shop of the victim causing a loss to the tune of Rs.1,00,000/-.