ORDER :

Annexure A1 FIR registered at Vattiyoorkavu Police Station and Annexure A6 final report filed after concluding investigation based on Annexure A1 before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court II, Nedumangad and C.C.No.1595/2016 registered on it's file on the basis of those, are sought to be quashed in the petition on hand. The petitioner herein is the sole accused in the above case. He was an Income Tax Officer.

2. The allegation of the prosecution was that on 14.10.2015 the officers of Central Bureau of Investigation (for short 'the CBI') had conducted a raid in the house of the petitioner, during the course of which they found 21 bottles of foreign liquor and Indian Made Foreign Liquor kept in two almirahs situated at two bedrooms of the petitioner which totally measures 19 liters of liquor. The officials also found eight cartridges/bullets of gun from the hall of the house, kept in a purse inside the showcase of the almirah. The officials of the CBI informed the matter to the police and based on that the crime aforesaid was registered by Vattiyoorkkavu Police, alleging commission of offences punishable under Section 3 r/w Section 25(1B) Arms Act, and Section 55(a) and 63 of