O R D E R

Petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. Petitioner is the accused in Crime No.1727/2012 registered by Chalakudy Police under Sections 509 and 506(1) I.P.C.

2. Prosecution case in short is that on 11-08-2012, the accused/petitioner misrepresented to the defacto complainant that she had to attend a medical camp near Kunnamkulam and took her to Kadampuzha. After reaching at that place, he tried to take the defacto complainant to a room in a lodge and when she refused, she was threatened that he had a photograph of the defacto complainant with another person. Thereby he criminally intimidated her.

3. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the first respondent and the learned Public Prosecutor.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the entire allegations in Annexure A final report, if taken together, will not show neither the offence of criminal intimidation nor the offence of insulting the modesty of a woman by word, gesture or act.

5. Section 503 I.P.C defines criminal intimidation.

Section 506 I.P.C provides the punishment for the same. It can be seen that the section is in two parts; the first part refers to the act of threatening ano