O R D E R This Crl.M.C has been filed by the sole accused in CC No.

2/2020 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court - I, Kothamangalam (for short, the trial court) under Section 482 of Cr.P.C to quash Annexure B final report and all further proceedings in CC No.2/2020.

2. The petitioner was the Headmaster at Government Higher Secondary School, Nellikkuzhy, Kothamangalam, Ernakulam. The 2^nd and 3^rd respondents were 8th-grade students at the said school. The prosecution case in short is that on 20/11/2019, at about 9.50 a.m., the petitioner wrongfully restrained and voluntarily caused simple hurt to the 2^nd and 3^rd respondents as they were late to report at yoga class and thereby committed the offences punishable under Sections 341 and 323 of IPC and Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children), Act, 2015 (for short, 'the JJ Act').

3. I have heard Smt.Leena C., the learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri.Sangeetha Raj N.R., the learned Public Prosecutor and Smt.Marian G.M.Tharakan, the learned counsel for the 2^nd and 3^rd respondents.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that even if all the allegations in Annexure B final report a