JUDGMENT :

Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal arises from a judgment dated 20 December 2021 of a Single Judge of the High Court of Karnataka by which the criminal revision filed by the appellant was dismissed on the ground of maintainability. The appellant, who is the original informant moved this Court.

3. It has been alleged that a dispute occurred on 25 December 2016 between the accused and villagers of Thoppanahalli village in Maddur, Karnataka on the allocation of water. The dispute is alleged to have led to a series of altercations and culminated in the murder of two persons and injuries to several others, including the appellant. A First Information Report,¹[“FIR”] under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973,²[“CrPC”] was registered on 26 December 2016 at PS Maddur, District Mandya, being Crime No. 0582 of 2016, for offences punishable under Sections 143, 147, 148, 504, 323, 302, 307, 114 and 149 of the Indian Penal Code.,³[“IPC”] According to the FIR, around 1830 hours on 25 December 2016, the accused came to the village of the appellant armed with knives and rods, and abused and assaulted some of the villagers. A few of the accused alle