This Criminal Revision petition has been filed
challenging the concurrent finding of conviction and sentence in
a prosecution under Sections 465 and 471 of IPC.
2. The petitioner along with the 2 nd accused faced trial
for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 419, 465, 467,
471, 477A read with 34 of IPC before the Judicial First Class
Magistrate Court-I, Chengannur(for short, the trial court) in
C.C. No. 175/95.
3. The petitioner was the Executive Officer of the
Pandanadu Panchayath during the period from December 1991
to March 1992. The 2 nd accused was the president of the said
Panchayath during the said period. The prosecution case in
short is that, while the petitioner and the 2 nd accused were
working in the above said capacity, during the aforementioned
period, the Panchayath implemented a scheme for providing
power supply to the houses of selected members of the people
belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and
economically backward community of that Panchayath with
‘united fund’ sanctioned to the Panchayath by the District
Council, Alappuzha. It is alleged that, the petitioner and the 2 nd
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accused colluded together with a common intention of
misappropriating amount from the above mentioned fund and
dishonestly forged quotations, increment vouchers, etc., in the
name of CW1, the proprietor of M/s C. Chacko and Sons,
Mavelikkara and used the forged documents as genuine and
thereby withdrew ₹30,105/- from the ‘united fund’ and they got
the electric wiring work of 130 houses done through CW2 by
paying a nominal amount of ₹1,100/- and misappropriated the
balance amount of ₹29,005/-. It is further alleged that, for
misappropriating the amount from the above fund, the
petitioner falsified accounts and deceived treasury and bank
authorities by impersonation.
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