The above criminal original petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure praying to call for the records relating to the order dated 18.6.2003 made in Crl.M.P.No.1987 of 2003 in C.C.No.1613 of 1992 by the Court of Special Judicial Magistrate, Tirupattur, Vellore District and set aside the same and direct the respondents to pay compensation.

2. On perusal of the materials placed on record and upon hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Advocate on the criminal side, it comes to be known that the petitioner was the first accused in the case registered by the respondents in C.C.No.1613 of 1992 before the Court of Special Judicial Magistrate, Tirupattur for the offences punishable under Section 120-B IPC, Sections 21(d),(e)(f) and Section 36(A) and (E) of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act and r/w.Rule 3(1) of the Sandalwood Possession Rules; that during investigation, the respondents seized and produced 48 sandalwood items before the Court as case property, which were in turn entrusted to the second respondent by the Court for safe custody; that after full trial, the said criminal case ended in acquittal by the judgme