The petitioners have filed these petitions seeking to quash Annexure A complaint in ST No.3 of 2017 and Annexure B order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Thiruvananthapuram, issued to the petitioners herein. According to the petitioners, the publication per se in not defamatory and the petitioners are not responsible for the publication of the said news article and therefore, they are innocent of the allegations levelled as against them.

2. The petitioners are arrayed as accused Nos.25, 23 and 24 respectively in ST.No.3 of 2017 on the file of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Thiruvananthapuram for the alleged offences punishable under Sections 120-B and 500, 501 and 502 of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioners prefer these petitions being aggrieved by the order of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Thiruvananthapuram, in ST.No.3 of 2017, in taking cognizance as against the petitioners for the offences mentioned above. Annexure A is the copy of the complaint in ST.No.3 of 2017. True copy of the judgment passed by this Court in Crl.M.C.No.4139/2017 is produced as Annexure B. The first respondent/ complainant has preferred a criminal complaint in ST.No.3 of 2017 un