1. This case is yet another instance where the organized Bar attempts to derail the criminal investigation in their anxiety to make one of their wayward member from facing the prosecution, being an accused for an offence involving murder. This case also shows the ever willing Government instead of upholding the rule of law, succumbing to the dictates of a pressure group, thanks to a green signal given by the Court.

2. The fifth respondent, who is a Station House Officer and the Inspector of Police at Paravakkottai Police Station, Mannargudi Taluk, had registered an FIR at the behest of the petitioner, who is the resident of East Street, Main Road, Keelathiruppalakudi village. On 25.12.2005, the petitioner had appeared before the police station around 2.30 p.m. and informed them that when he went to the main road at Sundarakottai to meet his brother Tamilselvan around 09.30 a.m., his brother was coming from the northern side to south side after bathing his cattle. At that time, from the house of one Asaithambi, four persons including Ullikottai Poyyamozhi, Elangovan (R-7), who is the then President of Ullikkottai Panchayat, and an another person by name Ullikkottai Selva