ORDER :

1. This petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. praying this Court to quash the charge-sheet filed in Crime No. 163/2017 and S.C. No. 306/2018 for the offences punishable under Sections 143, 147, 323, 324, 365, 511, 331, 120B read with Section 149 of IPC, pending on the file of the LVIII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bangalore (CCH-59).

2. The factual matrix of the case is that the complainant, who is working as an advisor to Sri. K.S. Eshwarappa, Opposition Leader, made the allegation that on 11.05.2017 at around 4.00 p.m. while he was travelling from his friend Jagadeesh’s house to Malleshwaram in his vehicle, when he was passing through Mahalakshmi Layout, a car came from behind and dashed his car. When he stepped out of the car to check if there were any damages, three people asked him to come and check if something had happened to the front portion of his car. At that time, one person held him tightly from behind and tried to make him sit inside the car. A person sitting in the driver seat had kept the car on and remaining 5-6 people hit the informant and tried to push him inside the car and the informant objected to this and fought back and when they