IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE A. BADHARUDEEN TUESDAY, THE 3^RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2024 / 12TH BHADRA, 1946 CRL.MC NO. 6543 OF 2024 CRIME NO.671/2024 OF VAIKOM POLICE STATION, KOTTAYAM PETITIONER/ACCUSED:

JOHN JOSEPH AGED 52 YEARS S/O.LIGORI GEORGE, J2 FASHION TAILORING, OPPO.JUMA MASJID, VAIKOM, KOTTAYAM, PIN - 686006 BY ADVS.

P.A.ABDUL JABBAR MUHAMMED SHAFFI RESPONDENT/STATE:

1 STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM, PIN - 682031

2 BINU SOMANATHAN AGED 52 YEARS D/O.SOMANATHAN, KARIPPAYIL, CHEMMANATHUKARA, T.V.

PURAM, KOTTAYAM, PIN - 686006 R1 BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR SRI.M.P.PRASANTH R2 BY ADV.SHAHIM BIN AZIZ THIS CRIMINAL MISC. CASE HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON

29.8.2024, THE COURT ON 03.09.2024, PASSED THE FOLLOWING:

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Dated this the 3^rd day of September, 2024 This Criminal Miscellaneous Case has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, to quash Annexure A1 FIR in Crime No.671/2024 of Vaikom Police Station, Kottayam District and all further proceedings thereunder. The petitioner herein is the sole accused in the above case.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the