ORDER

The accused in S.C.No.571/2019 on the files of the Additional Sessions Court-I, Alappuzha (Special Court for Trial of Offences Relating to Atrocities against Women and Children including POCSO cases), has filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings against him in the aforesaid case, and also to quash Annexure V order passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge in a discharge petition filed by the petitioner.

2. The petitioner, who is a former Police OfÏcer, has been booked by the Punnapra Police, for the commission of offences under Sections 341 , 354, 366A and 370 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 , Section 9 (a)(i) r/w Section 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and Section 77 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 . It is alleged that the petitioner, after obtaining the phone number of a 16-year-old girl from her lover, asked that girl to accompany him for the purpose of interrogation