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V. SIVAGNANAM
Kaviraj @ Kavithairaj – Appellant
Versus
State Rep. by The Inspector of Police, Ramanathapuram – Respondent
JUDGMENT
(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C, praying to call for the records relating to the charge sheet in S.T.C.No.566 of 2022 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate, Kamuthi and quash the same as against the petitioner is concerned.)
1. This petition is filed to quash the charge sheet in S.T.C.No.566 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Kamuthi and quash the same as against the petitioner.
2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner did not involve in any crime as alleged by the second respondent. In fact, the petitioner went out to buy medicine to his mother and he explained the critical situation of his mother to the second respondent. However, the respondent police registered the case against the petitioner for the offences punishable under Sections 143, 269 and 270 of IPC. As far as the offence under Section 143 IPC is concerned, whoever is a member of unlawful assembly, shall be punished and as far as the offence under Sections 269 and 270 IPC are concerned, whoever, unlawfully or negligently or malignantly does any act, which is, and which he knows or has reasons to believe, to be lik
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