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This criminal revision petition has been filed challenging the dismissal of an application filed by the prosecution to add respondents 6 and 7 as accused under Section 319 of Cr.P.C. 2. The Karimkunnam Police registered a crime against five persons as Crime No.244 of 2014 under Sections 323, 324, 326A r/w 34 of IPC. They are arrayed as respondents 3 to 7. 3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the accused, in furtherance of their common intention, wrongfully restrained CW1 on 0n 06.05.2014 at 04.30 p.m., on the road margin near the waiting shed at Purappuzha junction, the 2^nd accused voluntarily caused hurt to him by hitting on his head, the 3^rd accused voluntarily caused grievous hurt to him by spraying acid on his face and all the accused voluntarily caused hurt to him by beating all over his body and thereby committed the said offences.

4. After investigation, the police filed final report against the three accused only who are respondents 3 to 5. Those three accused faced trial before the Assistant Sessions Court, Thodupuzha (for short, 'the trial court'). After the examination of CW1 as PW1, the prosecution filed an application as C.M.P. No.182 of 2016 to add respo