ORDER :

The petitioner is accused No.4 in Special Case No.2679 of 2023 pending before FTSC-1, Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru. He is knocking at the doors of this Court seeking quashment of entire proceedings registered against him in Crime No.376 of 2023 for offences punishable under Sections 17 and 21 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (‘the Act’ for short) and Section 506 r/w Section 34 of the IPC.

2. Heard Sri Tejas S., learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri Harish Ganapathy, learned High Court Government Pleader appearing for respondent No.1.

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

It is the case of the prosecution that a victim aged about 11 years, son of the complainant, was studying Quran at Faizan Manik Mastan Madarasa (‘the Madarasa’ for short) and prior to four months of registration of the complaint between June 2023 to 29-09-2023 when the 11 year old boy was asleep in the second floor of the Madarasa, accused Nos.1 and 2 being the teachers in Madarasa have entered into the room, dragged the victim to the corner, removed his pant, put coconut oil into private parts of the victim and committed unnatural sexual assa