JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying call for the records pertaining to the case in C.C.No. 134 of 2022 on the file of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, Srivilliputhur, and quash the same as illegal.)

1. This criminal original petition is filed seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No. 134 of 2022, on the file of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Srivilliputhur.

2. The facts of the case are that the petitioners are the reporter and publisher of the Tamil Magazine namely, Kumudham Reportor. The respondent is the complainant. The petitioners were prosecuted for publishing an article under the heading "TAMIL", on 10.09.2021, in the said Magazine. This article offending the complainant. Hence, he filed a private complaint against the petitioners, for the offences punishable under Sections 499, 500 and 501 IPC before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srivilliputhur and the same was taken on file as C.C.No.134 of 2022, which is now under challenge.

3. The learned Counsel appearing for the petitioners submitted that the criminal proceedings in C.C.No.134 of 2022, on the file of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Srivilli