ORDER :

1. The Managing Director of a company which owns a television channel has filed this application under S.482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘the Code’) for quashing the criminal prosecution initiated against him for committing the offences punishable under Ss.500,501 and 502 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. The petitioner is the fourth accused in the case S.T.No.29/2016 pending in the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram.

3. The aforesaid case is one instituted upon the complaint filed by the first respondent (hereinafter referred to also as ‘the complainant’) against nine persons including the petitioner. The material averments in the complaint are as follows: The complainant was the Additional Sub Inspector of the Pathanamthitta Police Station. On 16.03.2015, when he was checking vehicles at the M.L.A. Road at Chemmannur, he stopped the motor cycle driven by the first accused. The second accused was the pillion rider of the motor cycle. The complainant directed the first accused to pay a fine of Rs.100/-for not wearing the helmet while riding the motor cycle. He paid the amount and received the receipt but a wordy altercation took place.