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The defacto complainant, herein, being aggrieved by the judgment passed in S.C.No.70 of 2014 on the file of the first Additional District and Sessions Court (P.C.R), Thanjavur, dated 04.01.2018, is on appeal.

2.The case of the prosecution in brief would run as follows:

2.1.The accused herein belongs to Hindu Thuluva Velalar community. 2.2.The defacto complainant belongs to Hindu Parayan community. 2.3.On 27.01.2013 at about 13.00 hours at Palangudi Village in front of Tamarai Eshwari Amman and Arulmigu Mariyamman temples, the Village Committee meeting was held in a common place.

2.4.The accused herein Selvam @ Selvaganapathy failed to show the accounts for the period he acted as a Chairman of the Village Committee. The defacto complainant demanded that his paternal uncle may be nominated to act as Chairman of the Village Committee.

2.5.The accused Selvam @ Ganapathy herein shouted that post of the Chairman shall not be given to Parayan Community and spoke in a abusive words about the chastity of the women belonging to the members of Parayan community by stating that “vd; miu"hd; fapW glhj gwg;gabghz;lhl;o ahh;

7. At trial, to substantiate the charges, the prosecution examined 15 witnesses and 8 documents were marked.

8. P.W1 Nandagopalan was the defacto complainant who belongs to Parayan community. P.W2 S.Nagarajan is the junior paternal uncle of P.W1 who also belongs to the same community. P.W4 Murugaiyyan, P.W9 Arumugam, P.W10 Rajendran. P.W11 Kumar @ Subramaniyan. P.W12 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Santhanam @ Kalidoss. P.W13 Sivaprakasam are ocular witnesses. P.W3 Sulthan did not support the case and he was treated as hostile witness. P.W5 Subramaniyan, P.W6 Murugesan are the observation mahazar witnesses through whom the in signatures (Ex.P2 and Ex.P10) in the observation mahazar have been marked. P.W7 Somasundaram is the Head Quarters Deputy Tahsildhar who issued community certificate for the accused and for the defacto complainant (Ex.P4 and Ex.P5). On receipt of the complaint Ex.P6, FIR was registered by P.W8 Senthil Kumar, Sub Inspector of Police. P.W14 Thiru.Vaithiyalingam, Deputy Superintendent of Police conducted the investigation. His Successor in Office P.W15 Thiru.Maduraisamy, Deputy Superintendent of Police filed the final report before the Judicial Magistrate Court, Thiruvarur.

15. P.W7 Somasundaram the Head Quarters, Deputy Tahsildhar, has issued the community certificate for the accused that he belongs to Non- Scheduled Case Community(Ex.P4) and the defacto complainant belongs to Parayan Community (Ex.P5).

16. P.W8, the Sub-Inspector of Police, as per the directions of this Court, registered the case in Crime No.39 of 2013 under Section 3(1)(x) of SC ST Act. First Information Report is Ex.P1, complaint is Ex.P6. https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis