1. These petitions were filed by the petitioner for quashing the order in C.M.P.1327/1995 & C.P.No.112/2004, C.M.P.5731/95 & C.P.115/2004 and C.M.P.No.2712/95 & C.P.No.113/2004 and all further proceedings in pursuance to and in furtherance thereof pending before the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Kuthuparamba.

2. C.M.P.Nos.1327/95, 5731/95 and 2712/95 are private complaints filed against the petitioner and other accused for offences punishable under Sections 302, 307 & 120B read with Section 34 I.P.C. for the murder of the complainant’s son or brother, as the case may be, in the respective complaints.

3. The complainant’s case is that on 25.11.1994, the accused persons opened fire with their common intention to commit murder of the victims in the respective complaints without any provocation. On 25.11.1994 at 11 a.m., Sri.M.V. Raghavan the then Minister for Co-operation, the accused named in the complaint was to inaugurate the evening branch of the Kuthuparamba Co-operative Urban Bank in the Alakandi Shopping Complex at Kuthuparamba at the side of the Kuthuparamba Thalassery Road, near Kuthuparamba junction. A public meeting was also arranged at the Municipal Tow