ORDER :

A. Badharudeen, J.

This Criminal Miscellaneous Case has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, to quash Annexure.A2 charge in Crime No.2/2021 of Cyber Crime Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, now pending as S.C. No.441/2022 on the files of the Special Court (for the trial of cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act [hereinafter referred as ‘POCSO Act’ for short]), Thiruvananthapuram. The petitioner herein is the sole accused in the above case.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Public Prosecutor and the learned counsel appearing for the defacto complainant, in detail. Perused the relevant materials available.

3. In this matter, the prosecution allegation is that, the accused/petitioner herein, who has been running a youtube channel by name ‘True TV’ - True Satellite Communication Pvt. Ltd. owned by him, with intention to increase rating of his channel, disclosed the identity of the victim of POCSO Act offences in Crime No.2338/2020 of Kadakkavoor Police Station. The specific allegation is that, starting from 01.09.2020, the accused published necessary inputs, including the photographs of the father