Rajappa v. The Inspector Of Police

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED: 10.01.2020

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA Crl.O.P.[MD] No.19696 of 2019 1.Rajappa 2.Nedunchezhian 3.Noorjakhan Begam 4.Saravanan 5.Rajamani 6.Gandhirajan 7.Akbar 8.Muralitharan 9.Muruganantham 10.Malaisamy 11.Jankiraman 12.Balabharathi 13.Pandi 14.Arabu Mohamed 15.Santhanam 16.kaliraj 17.Pasumponraja 18.Maideen Bava 19.Anbarasu 20.Hakkim Sait 21.Veerapandi 22.Karunanithi 23.Abdul Khanraja : Petitioners/Accused Nos. 1,5 to 27 vs.

State rep. by The Inspector of Police, Town North Police Station, Dindigul, (Crime No.557 of 2017) : Respondent/Complainant PRAYER: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to call for the records relating to the case in S.T.C.No.664 of 2019 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Dindigul District and quash the same. For Petitioner : Mr.P.Mahendran For Respondents : Mr.S.Chandrasekar Additional Public Prosecutor (for R1)

O R D E R

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in S.T.C No.66 of 2019 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.I, Dindigul District for the offences under Sections 145, 188 and 341 IPC.

2.The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the facts of the case are exactly 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 respondent police would submit that the facts of the case are similar to the facts covered under the Judgment referred above. 4.Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent police and perused the materials 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. Accordingly, the proceedings in STC No.664 of 2019 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.I, Dindigul District is hereby quashed insofar as the petitioners alone and the Criminal Original Petition is allowed.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar () // True Copy // / /2020 Sub Assistant Registrar(CS) skn To 1.The Inspector of Police, Town North Police Station, Dindigul,

2.The Judicial Magistrate No.I, 3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.

Crl.O.P.[MD] No.19696 of 2019 10.01.2020 VB(28.01.2020) 3P 4C