ORDER :

PRAYER : Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C, praying to call for the records of the impugned Charge Sheet in C.C.No.224 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Thirumangalam, Madurai District and quash the same, insofar as the Petitioner is concerned.

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed to quash the Charge Sheet in C.C.No.224 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Thirumangalam, Madurai District.

2. The Petitioner is arrayed as accused in the case filed by the Forest Department. The charge, as per the Respondent, is that the Petitioner, who is the first accused in the case, was found within the jurisdiction of Usilampatti Forest Division within Thirumangalam Municipality Limit on Kamaraj Street in the compound of Arulmighu Patrakali Mariamman Thirukovil temple festival. The first accused, who is the owner of the domesticated female Elephant by name, Lakshmi, aged about 46, along with the accused 2 and 3 brought the Elephant for temple festival without obtaining prior permission of the Forest Officials under Section 48-A of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, thereby the accused 1 to 3 have committed the off