ORDER :

Petitioner in this criminal petition calls in question proceedings instituted before the Principal Civil Judge (Senior Division) & Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hosakote, Bengaluru Rural District in crime No.224 of 2018, registered at Hoskote Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 504, 332 and 353 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. The case projected by the prosecution is as follows:-

In the year 2018, at the time when elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly were notified, the activities of election were at large. On 18-04-2018, the complainant/1st respondent registered a complaint before the Hosakote Police Station alleging that he was appointed as the Head of a Flying Squad of the election duty and on the morning of that day, Bharathiya Janatha Party had put up lot of buntings on the occasion of the arrival of Sri Amit Shah. This according to the complainant was without authorization. It is his further case that, buntings so put up unauthorisedly were ordered to be removed by a Health Inspector of the Municipality at Hosakote by name, Miss Nusrat Banu