ORDER :

The petitioner/accused No.21 is before this Court calling in question order dated 08-11-2022 passed by the LXXXI Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru in Special C.C.No.565 of 2021 rejecting an application filed seeking petitioner’s discharge under Section 227 of the CrPC in a crime registered for offences punishable under Sections 120B, 302, 201, 143, 147, 148 r/w 149 of the IPC.

2. Facts, in brief, germane are as follows:-

The petitioner is a Government servant. The genesis of him getting embroiled in the impugned crime is based upon a complaint which becomes a crime in Crime No.135 of 2016. A complaint comes to be registered by Smt. Mallavva Goudar, wife of Yogish Goudar, a member of the Zilla Panchayat, Dharwad. It was the case of the complainant that her husband was two days prior to the incident received an anonymous letter threatening that he would be murdered just like his elder brother late Uday Goudar. The narration in the complaint is that her husband had around 25 criminal cases pending against him and was also listed as a rowdy in the Police Sta