JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Criminal Original petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, to call for the records in SPL.S.C.No.24 of 2020 pending on the file of Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act, Villupuram district, and quash the same.)

This petition has been filed to quash the Proceedings in SPL.S.C.No.24 of 2020, on the file of the Special Court for SC and ST (POA) Act, Villupuram, for the offences under Sections 147, 120B, 153A, 504 and 505(1)(c) of IPC and Sections 3(1)(s), 3(1)(u), 3(1)(za)(E), 3(1)(zc) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 and Sections 4(1) and 6 of Protection of Civil Rights Act in Crime No.582 of 2019 dated 01.11.2019.

2.1. A complaint has been registered for the incident that was purported to have taken place on 01.11.2019 at about 07.30 A.M, based on the statement of the de-facto complainant who, with the help of the one Thangaraj, that he recorded a video in his mobile phone. The statement of the de-facto complainant and the said witness Thangaraj is that they both went to Ramani Grocery Store, situated at Nayinaar Street, where, the 6th and 7th petitioners, the owners of th