Petitioners seek pre-arrest bail under Section 438 Cr.P.C.

2. Offences alleged are under Sections 323, 330, 355, 506 (ii) and Sections 10 & 12 of Protection of Child from Sexual Offences Act and Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2002 in Crime No.1 of 2015.

3. Sethuraman (petitioner in Crl. O.P. No. 980/2014) and Srinivasan (petitioner in Crl. O.P. No. 1008/2015) are A-1 and A-2.

4. Petitioners are Police Head Constables serving in Crime Section of R-1 Mambalam Police Station.

5. Petitioners were alleged to have tortured certain young boys while they were in their custody.

6. According to Mr. C.D. Johnson, the learned counsel for A-1, the alleged victims in this case are urchins. They were alleged to have committed certain property offences. The present case came into limelight after a news item came in the daily, Times of India. By way of cover up operation, petitioner has been targeted and implicated in this case.

7. The learned counsel for A-1 further submitted that the alleged victims or their parents never complained about any ill-treatment meeted out to the boys, while they were in police custody. All the story-telling, concoction comes o