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Petitioners are A20 and A21 in CC No.17/2012 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate's Court-II, Nedumangad, for the offences punishable under Sections 143 , 147, 148, 447 and 427 read with Section 149 IPC . The allegation is that as a part of a strike of the students of an engineering college, some students, who are identifiable on sight, trespassed into the college compound and damaged and destroyed the window shields of the college buses and also damaged some window panes, notice boards, etc. of the college.

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2. According to the learned counsel for the petitioners, the de facto complainant has not been cooperating with the trial and he himself is absconding. This Court has issued notice to the de facto complainant, who is impleaded as additional 3rd respondent. The notice issued to him has returned as unclaimed.

3. According to the learned counsel for the petitioners, due to the pendency of the present criminal case, the petitioners are not in a position to secure a proper job. It has been pointed out that there is no evidence at all against the petitioners.

4. The court below shall take note of the aforesaid facts and see that the trial is comp