O R D E R

This is a petition filed under Section 528 of B.N.S.S. , by the

1^st accused in Crime No.513 of 2023 of Ernakulam South Police Station, which is pending as C.C.No.1677 of 2023 on the file of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Ernakulam. The offences alleged against the petitioner are under Sections 452, 341, 323, 325, 506, 354, 279, 337 and 338 of I.P.C.

2. The prosecution case is that on 17.03.2023 at about

1 p.m., the accused trespassed into the residence of CWs 1 and 2, voluntarily caused hurt and grievous hurt to CW1. When CW2 intervened, the accused outraged her modesty by grabbing her hand and threatened to kill them and thereby the accused are alleged to have committed the aforesaid offences.

3. According to the petitioner, the dispute has been amicably settled with the defacto complainant and 2^nd respondent and that they agreed to drop all further proceedings relating to the above dispute. Therefore, he prayed for quashing all further proceedings against him.

4. The De facto complainant and the 2^nd respondent affidavits endorsing the averments in the Criminal MC. According to them, the dispute has been amicably settled and that they do not intend to p