JUDGMENT

Meenakshi I. Mehta. J. - By way of the present petition, the petitioner has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court for seeking the quashing of the order dated 20.07.2016 (Annexure P-7) passed by learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Patiala, whereby the evidence of the prosecution has been closed and also of the order dated 14.06.2016 (Annexure P-5) rejecting/dismissing the application as moved by him under Section 311 Cr.P.C for his own re-examination as well as for summoning the eye-witnesses named Naveen Kumar and Narinder Kumar as prosecution witnesses and he has further prayed for issuing the appropriate direction to the trial Court to afford one effective opportunity to him and the above-said witnesses to appear and beexamined as the prosecution witnesses.

2. Shorn and short of unnecessary details, the facts, culminating in the filing of the instant petition, are that a criminal case was registered against respondents No.2 to 4 at Police Station Shambhu, Patiala, vide FIR No.90 dated 16.09.2011 under Sections 323, 341, 506 read with Section 34 IPC, at the instance of the petitioner. After presentation of the Challan and framing of the charges, the prosecution witnesse