IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH: HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL APPEAL No.793 OF 2010 BETWEEN: The State of A.P., Rep. by its Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad …. Petitioner AND Parvatham Ramesh S/o. Kistaiah …. Respondent HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU CRIMINAL APPEALNo.793 OF 2010 ORDER: The Public Prosecutor seeks to file this appeal against judgment of acquittal passed by the Special Sessions Judge under the SCs and STs (POA) Act, Nalgonda by judgment dated 31-03-2009 in S.C. No.120 of 2007. 2. The respondent / accused was charged in the lower Court for offences punishable under Sections 448, 324, 323, 506 IPC and Section 3 (1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Except the victim as PW-2 and her mother as PW-3, no other person supported the prosecution case. Evidence of PW-3 was disbelieved by the lower Court because of inconsistency with evidence of PWs-1 and 2. There is delay of five days in giving report to the police after the incident. The victim is not the person who gave report to the police. The report was given by PW-1, who is her brother and who is not an eyewitness to the occurrence. Even though PW-2 is stated to have approached the doctor for treatment to her injuries on the next day, she did not report to the doctor as Medico Legal Case. On cumulative reading of all these circumstances, the lower Court rightly did not place any reliance on PW-2. 3. I do not find any infirmity in the judgment passed by the lower Court. 4. In the result, the Criminal Appeal is dismissed. __________________________ SAMUDRALA GOVINDARAJULU, J June 29, 2010 KTL