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The accused in C.C No.9/2019 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Andrott, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, has filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C to quash the proceedings against him in the said case. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 323 , 341, 506(i) and 296(i) I.P.C.

2. The sum and substance of the allegation against the petitioner is that, on 25.08.2016, while working as the Sub Inspector of Police, Minicoy Police Station, he resorted to custodial torture upon the de facto complainant, a Doctor by profession. It is stated that there occurred a clash between the public and the police personnel in Minicoy island on 25.08.2016, leading to the hospitalisation of so many people injured in police action, and that the complainant/second respondent had gone to the Government Hospital, Minicoy, where such persons had been admitted, to console them and to restore peaceful atmosphere in the Island. At that time, the petitioner allegedly took the complainant into custody and resorted to physical torture and verbal abuses in the police lock up of Minicoy Police Station.

3. The complaint which the second respondent filed b