NAGARATHNA, J.
Leave granted.
2. The appellant-accused herein is aggrieved by the impugned
judgement dated 22.01.2019 of the High Court of Madras convicting
the appellant under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for
short, ‘IPC’) and Section 5 of the Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of
Damage and Loss) Act, 1992 (for short, ‘TNPPDL Act’) and thereby
sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two years.
On 31.01.2010, at approximately 8 a.m., the appellant
was agitated by a bus – proceeding from Dharapuram to Erode –
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overtaking his car. The appellant forced the bus to stop by
overtaking and stopping in front of it. Thereafter, the appellant got
down from his car with a wooden log and proceeded to verbally and
physically assault complainant-driver and the conductor of the bus.
As a result, both the driver and conductor suffered simple injuries.
As people in the vicinity intervened, the accused fled leaving the
wooden log at the place of occurrence. The complaint registered by
complainant-driver also noted that the appellant-accused broken
the right side mirror of the bus. Having suffered injuries, the
complainant-driver and conductor were taken to a government
hospital where their statements and a written complaint were taken
on the basis of which an FIR being No.95/2010 was registered with
Kundadam Police Station, District Tiruppur under Sections 341,
394(b), 324, 506(ii) of the IPC and Sections 3 and 5 of the TNDPPL
Act.