JUDGMENT :

Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, to call for the records in pursuant to S.T.C. No. 132 of 2015 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No. III, Coimbatore and quash the same.

1. The above petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in S.T.C. No. 132 of 2015 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No. III, Coimbatore a for the offences under Sections 143 and 341 of IPC.

2. The allegation in the final report is that the accused belong to a political party. On 04.05.2015, the petitioners unlawfully assembled and made a protest against lodging of a complaint against a student. While doing so, the accused also restrained the public and squattered the public road. Thereby, they had committed the offences under Sections 143 and 341 of I.P.C. The prosecution cited 20 witnesses.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the prosecution has been launched with political motive and even when the entire prosecution case taken as proved, the same would not constitute any offence. Therefore, continuing the prosecution is nothing but abuse of process of law. Therefore, submitted that the same may be quashed.

4. The Le