ORDER

Petitioner is the accused in Crime No.1437 of 2017 of Nooranadu Police Station, which is pending as C.C.No.710 of 2017 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Class Court-II, Mavelikkara was registered alleging commission of offences under Sections 323 and 341 of Indian Penal Code and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Care and Protection of Children Act 2015.

2. The allegation against the petitioner is that while working as Hindi language teacher in a school, he assaulted a Class-X student of the school at about 4 p.m. on 09.11.2017. It is alleged that the petitioner had so assaulted the student for bending down and trying to pick up something at the time when the National Anthem was being played. It is alleged that the petitioner kicked the student as a result of which the student had fallen down and had thereafter dragged him by his shirt collar and had thrown him in to the southern corner of the class room.

The Crime came to be registered on the complaint of the father of the child/defacto complainant, who is arrayed as additional 2nd respondent to the Criminal M.C.

3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that there is absolutely no allega