JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, directing the respondents 1 to 4 herein to provide adequate police protection to the life and limb of the petitioner and for the agricultural works in the lands comprised in S.Nos.198/6A, 199/1, 204/3 B, 204/2 of Seikipatti Village, Melur Taluk, Madurai District, by considering his representation dated 05.10.2020 within the time stipulated by this Hon'ble Court.)

1. When police protection is sought for, towards the implementation of a civil court order, whether it is justifiable on the part of the police to insist upon a specific court order to give police protection. This is the issue raised in the present petition seeking direction to the Police to give police protection

(a) to the life and limb of the petitioner, and

(b) for the agricultural work in the lands comprised in SF.Nos.198/6A, 199/1, 204/3B, 204/2 of Seikipatti Village, Melur Taluk, Madurai District, which is also the subject matter of the civil court decree granted in O.S.No.25/2008 on the file of the Sub Court, Madurai.

2. The issue raised is all the more critical when there is a G.O i.e., G.O.NO.1580, Home Department dated 24.11.2008 whi