The above Criminal Original petition has been filed invoking the powers of this Court under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code to quash the FIR in Crime No 32 of 2017 on the file of the respondent.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he joined the Pondicherry Home guards in 1990 and joined duty in the police department on 30.06.1998 after being recruited through sports quota. The petitioner though posted in the traffic department (East) now, has been part of the Special Task Force, Crime Team (South) and has solved many cases involving murder, theft, lottery case. The petitioner has received several accolades including Rajiv Gandhi Award on 16.08.2016. According to the petitioner, he had earned several enemies in the department as during the course of his investigation in many cases, it came to light that several police officers are involved in various crimes and one such instance is when a series of theft was occurring in Puducherry in 2011, the petitioner and his STF (South) members arrested few accused, who, in turn, made startling revelations that they handed over the jewels and household articles to two members of STF (North) headed by the Sub-Inspector P.Rames