ORDER

Accused Nos.1 to 3 in C.C No.555/2018 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, Neyyattinkara have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C to quash the proceedings against them in the aforesaid case.

2. The learned Magistrate initiated criminal proceedings against the petitioners for the commission of offences under Sections 354C and 120B I.P.C upon a private complaint filed by the second respondent. The allegation against the petitioners is that they committed the offence of voyeurism envisaged under Section 354C I.P.C by taking the photograph of the second respondent while she, after having bath, was laying clothes for drying in a clothes-line near a shed in front of her house. The petitioners, along with a photographer, are alleged to have committed the aforesaid offence at about 11:00 a.m on 09.09.2015. According to the second respondent, the aforesaid act of the petitioners also constituted the offence under Section 66E of the Information Technology Act .

3. Originally, the second respondent had filed a complaint before the learned Magistrate contending that the first petitioner, along with a photographer, who has been arraigned as the 4th a