JUDGMENT

(Prayer: This Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., to call for the records in S.C.No.12 of 2019 pending on the file of the learned Principal District and Sessions Judge, Namakkal in Cr.No.301 of 2017 on the file of the 1st respondent and quash the same.)

1. Accused A1 to A4 are the petitioners herein, seeking quashment of S.C.No.12 of 2019, on the file of the learned Principal District and Sessions Judge, Namakkal.

(2) Facts leading to the filing of the above Criminal Original Petition are as under:

(i) The 1st respondent police, during the duty hours had received an intimation from the Salem Government Hospital and visited the same and on an enquiry conducted by him, the defacto complainant who was admitted and treated as an in-patient in the government hospital had furnished a statement, based on which, on 30.07.2017, the 1st respondent herein had registered a case in Crime No.301 of 2017 against the petitioners/accused for alleged offence under Sections 147, 294(b), 323, 506(i) IPC and section 3(1) of the Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992.

(ii) On the very same day, the 1st respondent police had enquired and rec