This revision is in challenge of judgment of learned Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track-IV), Thiruvananthapuram in Crl.Appeal No.215 of 2005 confirming conviction and sentence imposed on petitioner for offence punishable under Section 392 of the Indian Penal Code (for short, “the Code”). Case is that on 12.12.2000 at about 9.15 a.m. while PW1, Headmistress of a local U.P.School was going to that school along the road, petitioner came riding a motor cycle, stopped it near her and under threat of death snatched the gold chain (MO1) she was wearing and sped away on the motor cycle. PW1 gave information at the nearby house wherefrom information was given to the nearby places over telephone. After sometime petitioner was allegedly detained by local people at the junction about which information was given to PW1 as well. She went to that place and identified petitioner as the culprit. PW1, along with some of the local people took petitioner to the police station where she gave first information regarding the incident. Police seized MO1, gold chain from the possession of petitioner. Later the motor cycle which petitioner was allegedly using was also seized by the police. Prosecution examined PWs 1 to 7 and marked Exts.P1 to P8 and MO1. PW1 narrated the incident but failed or refused to identify petitioner as the culprit. She identified MO1 as the gold chain which she was wearing and which was snatched away. PWs 2 to 4, along
