JUDGMENT

Jay Sengupta, J.—This is an application praying for direction upon the respondent authorities to provide police protection to the petitioner and his family members from the illegal activities of the respondent no.7, for quashing of Jagaddal Police Case No. 393 dated 21.09.2023 under Sections 341, 195A, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code and initiating disciplinary proceedings against the erring police personnel.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits as follows. The petitioner is the owner of the property in question. He lives there with his wife, his other son and his family. The respondent no.7 being the youngest son of the petitioner never stayed with the petitioner for the last 15 years. He had worked in Mumbai. It was only after the petitioner gifted away a considerable portion of his property to another son that the respondent no.7 has come to create disturbances. In fact on 19th September, 2023, a case was started, inter alia, under the provisions of the POCSO Act against the other son of the petitioner for alleged misbehavior with the respondent no.7’s minor daughter. Soon thereafter, the respondent no.7 lodged another case, inter alia, u