1. This Criminal Revision Case has been filed by the petitioners against the order dated 25.04.2017 passed in S.T.C.No.238 of 2017 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.III, Erode.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 23.01.2017 at about 11.00 hours, the defacto complainant, S.P. Srinivasa Murthy, and his friend were returning in a two wheeler from Bhavani to his native and when they were nearing Nasiyanur junction, in front of Hotel Paradise, he saw six lorries covered with Tarpaulin sheets parked there. In one of the lorries Tarpaulin sheet was loosely tied and through that side, he saw the injured cows and bullocks. When he tried to open the other lorries covered with Tarpaulin, the drivers and the hotel owners chased them in two wheelers with knives. The complainant and his friend called their friends over mobile phone. Immediately, their friends and nearby villagers assembled and they went near lorries bearing registration Nos.KA 45 8793; KA 13 1393; KA 45 9454; KA 41B 4215; KA 01 AD 3662 and KL 48 B 0766 and found totally 81 cattle being illega