SUDHIR KUMAR KATRIAR, J.

1. This application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, has been preferred by the sole petitioner with prayer to quash the impugned order of cognizance dated 13.1.1994, passed by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka, in Complaint Case No. 7 (c) of 1994/Tr. No. 835 of 1994, then pending in the Court of Shri M.P.Srivastava, Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Banka, whereby cognizance has been taken of the alleged offences under Sections 144, 431, 427, 504, IPC, and the petitioner and one more have been summoned to stand their trial.

2. To narrate the back-ground of the present case as emerging from the two FIRs and the complaint petition in question, covering the days events in sequence of time, there was a call for Bihar Bandh on 24.12.1993 by various organisations of students and unions. One Bibhuti Bhushan Singh, Secretary, Advocates Association, Banka, had also lodged an FIR with Banka Police Station, which was registered as Banka PS Case No. 447/93, dated 24.12.1993, wherein allegations were levelled under Sections 143, 448, 379, 427 and 34 of the IPC against three named persons as well as 50 unnamed persons. A photoco