1. The revision and the criminal miscellaneous petition are filed by the same petitioner, de facto complainant in a case which had been disposed of after trial by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kalpetta, Wayanad.

2. The case numbered as C.C.No.339 of 2003 on the file of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court arose from the report filed by the police after investigation in a crime registered on the complaint of petitioner, indicting the accused person, common 1st respondent in the petitions, for the offence under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (for short “the IPC”). Learned Magistrate after trial, found the accused not guilty, and acquitted him of the offence. While passing the order of acquittal in favour of the accused, the learned Magistrate forming an opinion that there was no reasonable ground for the de facto complainant to make accusation of the offence imputed against the accused ordered to proceed against him under Section 250 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short “the Code”). A show cause notice was issued to the complainant why he should not be called upon to pay compensation to the accused person. Responding to that notice, petitioner appeared