This is a petition under Sec. 482 Cri.P.C., for directing the Judicial Second Class Magistrate, Porto Novo to treat the case C.C. No. 2421 of 1976 as a Preliminary Register Case.

2. The petitioner filed a criminal complaint before the learned Judicial Second Class Magistrate of Porto Novo against the respondents in which complaint he has alleged as follows :- On 26-7-1976 at about 7-15 a.m. the complainant and his brother Vadivelu was attacked by the third accused and his men with koduwal and with sticks etc. and injuries were caused to the complainant and his brother; whereupon the complainant went and reported the matter to the police who thereupon sent him and his brother to the hospital where they were treated till 6-8-1976 and on 8-8-1976 when the complainant was going to his doctor as he was having headache and was passing by the house of the third accused all the accused were standing in the front of the house and on seeing him accused 3, 5 and 6 dragged him into the house of the third accused and the other accused followed them into the house and there they wrongfully confined him and the accused 4 and 9 stood at the entrance of the house in order to prevent the