1. The two accused in C C. No. 180/ 79 now pending before the Judicial Magistrate of I Class, Wadakkancherry, are the petitioners herein and they seek to invoke the inherent powers of this Court to quash the entire proceedings in the said criminal complaint. Both the petitioners are sisters, the first petitioner is said to be aged 52 and the second petitioner 40. The case against them is that they, on April 9, 1979. obstructed witnesses 1 and 2 in the charge-sheet who are respectively the Taluk Surveyor and the Revenue Inspector, from entering the compound in which the petitioners are residing by closing their gate and thus prevented and obstructed the above officers from discharging their official duties. It is alleged that it was for surveying property comprised in Sy. No. 399 of Enkakad Village as per orders of the Tahsildar that these officers went there. On these allegations, a complaint was filed by the Taluk Surveyor before the Wadakkancherry Police Station, on the basis of which a case was registered against the petitioners under S.341, and 353 read with S.34 IPC. On competition of investigation, a charge-sheet under the above said sections was filed against the