Vijayakumar v. Inspector Of Police
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 22.04.2022 CORAM :
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA Crl.O.P.No.8313 of 2022 and Crl.M.P.No.4854 & 4856 of 2022
1. Vijayakumar
2. Sivakumar
3. M.S.K.Hari
4. Ramesh
5. Viruthagiri
6. Elumalai
7. Vasanthi
8. Elumalai
9. Muniyappan
10. Tamilnilavan
11. Pasilmohamed
12. J.B.Kadhar
13. A.V.Saravanan
14. Ramasamy
15. Vijay
16. Rajavel
17. Kannan
18. Velmurugan
19. Gopi
20. Sakthi
21. Ravi ... Petitioners Vs.
1. The State Represented by:- Inspector of Police, Thirukoilur Police Station, Villupuram.
2. The Sub-Inspector of Police, Thirukoilur Police Station, Villupuram.
... Respondents PRAYER : Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., pleased to call for the records in S.T.C. No.22 of 2021 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Thirukoyilur and quash the same.
For Petitioners: Mr.R.Thirumoorthy For Respondents: Mr.A.Gokulakrishnan Additional Public Prosecutor.
O R D E R
This Criminal Original Petition has been filed to call for the records in S.T.C.No.22 of 2021, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Thirukoyilur and quash the same.
2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the facts of the case are similar to the case covered in the decision reported in 2018 2 LW (Crl) 606 [Jeevanandham and others vs. The Inspector of Police Velayuthampalayam Police Station, Karur District] dated 20.09.2018 and in the case of Sri Raja vs Inspector of Police, Sivakasi Town Police Station Virudhunagar District and other in batch of cases in Crl.O.P(MD) No.7922 of 2019 dated 30.08.2019.
3. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondents would submit that the facts of the case are similar to the facts covered under the Judgment referred above.
4. Heard the learned counsel and perused the materials available on record.
5. The facts of this case is similar to the facts covered by the Judgment of this Court reported in 2018 2 LW (Crl) 606 [Jeevanandham and others vs. The Inspector of Police Velayuthampalayam Police Station, Karur District] dated 20.09.2018 and in case of Sri Raja vs Inspector of Police, Sivakasi Town Police Station Virudhunagar District and other in batch of cases in Crl.O.P(MD) No.7922 of 2019 dated 30.08.2019.
6. In view of the above, this Court is of the opinion that no useful purpose will be served by keeping the proceedings pending in respect of all the other accused also.
7. Accordingly, the Criminal Original Petition stands allowed and the proceedings in S.T.C.No.22 of 2021, pending on file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Thirukoyilur, is hereby quashed. Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petitions are closed.
Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS-VII) //True copy// Sub Assistant Registrar ham To
1. The Judicial Magistrate, Thirukoyilur.
2. The Inspector of Police, Thirukoilur Police Station, Villupuram.
3. The Sub-Inspector of Police, Thirukoilur Police Station, Villupuram.
4. The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras.
Crl.O.P.No.8313 of 2022 and Crl.M.P.Nos.4854 & 4856 of 2022 AJB(CO) GMY(05/05/2022)