Petitioners are accused 1 and 2 in C.C.No.440/2004, on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thalassery. The offences alleged against them are under Sections 341 and 506(ii) I.P.C. read with Section 34 I.P.C. Petitioners have preferred this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying to quash Annexure-II complaint filed by the first respondent, the complainant, against them.

2. The interesting brief facts are that the petitioners, two Advocates of Thalassery Bar, are alleged to have wrongfully restrained the first respondent, also an Advocate of the same Bar, and criminally intimidated him, by threatening that if the first respondent continued to harass the second accused, he would not walk on his two legs. The 3rd accused in Annexure-II complaint also threatened the first respondent. Hence, he filed a complaint before the Magistrate and that had been forwarded to the Thalassery police, which after investigation, referred the same, and issued Annexure-I refer notice to the first respondent. It was thereafter that Annexure-II complaint has been preferred before the court below.

3. During the pendency of this petition, the parties have settled the matter amo