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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
MR. JUSTICE G.GIRISH, J
T.G. Rajaram Shenoy S/o Govinda Shenoy – Appellant
Versus
K.K. Hari Pai S/o Krishna Pai – Respondent
ORDER :
The order dated 09.07.2019 in C.M.P.No.583/2018 on the files of Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Chottanikkara is under challenge in this petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C at the instance of the person arraigned as accused Nos.11 and 14 in the aforesaid C.M.P. The learned Magistrate, by the impugned order, had forwarded the above C.M.P to the S.H.O of Police, Ambalamedu for the registration of F.I.R and report.
2. The allegations against the petitioners herein in the complaint filed as C.M.P.No.583/2018 before the learned Magistrate, in conspectus, are as follows:
The petitioner/complainant in that C.M.P is a devotee of late Swami Sudheendra Theertha, the devotional Guru of Gauda Saraswata Brahmin community, and the supreme head of Kashi Math. Accused Nos.1 to 7 and Accused Nos.10 to 16, who are associated with the above community, conspired with Accused Nos.8 and 9 who are respectively the Managing Director of Seven Hills Hospital, Mumbai and a Doctor of the said hospital who treated Swami Sudheendra Theertha, to commit murder of the above said Swami, and got the said Swami discharged from that hospital on 16.01.2016 at a time when the physical and mental conditio
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