JUDGMENT :

B. Veerappa, J.

1. The petitioner who is the accused in CC No.13613/2009, filed the present writ petition to quash the impugned notification dated 27.8.2013 as per Annexure-A, appointing the 2nd respondent as the Special Public Prosecutor under the Provisions of Section 24(8) of the Code of Criminal Procedure to conduct the above criminal case on behalf of the State Government.

I. BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE

2. It is the case of the petitioner that he is the 1st Accused in C.C. No.13613/2009 pending on the file of the IV Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bangalore, on the basis of a false complaint by one R. Jayavelu and the entire case is based on false premises and the averments relied on therein are totally absurd and inconsistent. The complainant in the said matter has resorted to various acts of high handedness and this writ petition is meant to challenge the latest such atrocity suffered by the petitioner at the hands of the complainant, wherein the 2nd respondent has been appointed as the Special Public Prosecutor by the 1st respondent State Government without there being any special circumstances requiring such an appointment nor does public interest demand such an ap