Arali Nagaraj, J.

Despite receipt of notice of this appeal, the respondents No.1 to 4, who were

respectively accused Nos. 1 to 4 before the Trail Court, have remained absent.

2. Heard Sri. A.V. Ramakrishna, the Learned High Court Government Pleader, and perused the impugned order.

3. This appeal is by the complainant-State aggrieved by the order dated 15.12.2008 passed in CC No.780/2007 by the Learned Civil Judge (Jr.Dn.) and JMFC, Nanjangud (hereinafter referred to as ‘Trail Court’ for short), acquitting all the accused Nos. 1 to 4 (respondents herein) of the offences under Sections 341, 323 and 324 read with Section 34 IPC.

4. The facts leading to the present appeal are as under:

All the accused Nos. 1 to 4 were chargesheeted by the police of Nanjangud PS for the offences under Sections 341, 323 and 324 read with Section 34 IPC. The charge was framed against all the accused therein for the said offences on 24.6.2008. The said case stood posted to 15.1.2009 for recording further evidence for the prosecution and summons and NBWS were issued to the charge witnesses.

5. On 15.12.2008, the learned JMFC advanced the case suo-motu from 15.1.2009 and by his impugned order clo