JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., seeking to call for the records in Crime No.275 of 2022 pending on the file of the first respondent police and to quash the same.)

1. This petition has been filed seeking to quash the F.I.R. in Crime No.275 of 2022, filed against the petitioners, by the first respondent police, pursuant to the directions of the learned XVIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, for the offence punishable under Section 295A of IPC.

2. The crux of the allegation in the FIR is that the defacto complainant / second respondent and his friend has watched a movie by name "Jai Bhim" acted and produced by Mr.Suriya (A2) and directed by Mr.T.J.Gnanavel (A1) and released in OTT platform. It is projected that as if it is a real story and that they came to know that it in order to insult and humiliate the defacto complainant's community and incite communal violence, the story has been projected as if a Irular community man was killed by a Sub Inspector of Police named Guru. It is the case of the defacto complainant that name of Guru has been given to the police officer and in fact the name Guru refers to the former President of Vanniyar