ORDER :

These are petitions filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking to quash Annexure A2 and A4 orders of the Additional Sessions Judge, Neyyattinkara in CMP.87/2021 and CMP.86/2021 in SC.368/2014 respectively.

2. Petitioner in both these Crl.M.Cs is one and the same. He is the first accused in SC. 368/2014 of Additional Sessions Court, Neyyattinkara, which is the culmination of investigation in crime No.490/2012 of Kanjiramkulam police station, Thiruvananthapuram. That is a case registered alleging offence under Sections 143, 147, 341, 324, 307, 302 r/w 149 of IPC. The alleged incident had happened at 9:45 p.m. on 27.10.2012. There are ten accused in the crime. It is alleged that they formed an unlawful assembly and, in prosecution of their common object, committed murder of one Christudas and one Antony and caused injuries to three others; all the accused are members of the same family. After investigation, charge sheet was laid and the accused are facing trial. According to the petitioner, the prosecution evidence was partly completed in February 2020 and thereafter, even during pandemic, the defence had participated in completing the trial; prosecution e