M.Venkatesan v. The State,

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 10.03.2023 CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN Criminal Original Petition No. 33708 of 2019 and Crl.M.P. No. 18596 of 2019 M. Venkatesan ... Petitioner

Versus

1. The State, Rep., by the Inspector of Police, Crime Branch CID, Erode.

2. Nithyanandam ... Respondents PRAYER : Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeking to call for the charge sheet in C.C. No. 543 of 2019 pending on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate at Udumalaipattai and quash the same.

For Petitioner : Mr. M. Rajasekhar. For Respondents : Mr. A. Damodaran, Additional Public Prosecutor for R1.

Ms. N. Umapathi for R2.

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O R D E R

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was tried and acquitted in C.C. No. 543 of 2019 by the Judgment dated 17.08.2021 which has been challenged in this quash petition. 2.In view of the same, the above prayer in the Criminal Original Petition has become infructous. Hence, this Criminal Original Petition is dismissed as infructuous. Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petition is closed.

10.03.2023 ay Index: Yes/No Speaking Order / Non-Speaking Order To

1. The Inspector of Police, Crime Branch CID, Erode.

2. The Judicial Magistrate, Udumalaipettai, 2/5

Tiruppur.

3. The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Chennai.

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SUNDER MOHAN, J ay Crl.O.P. No. 33708 of 2019 and Crl.M.P. No. 18596 of 2019 4/5

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