O RDER

This Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. seeking for quashment of C.C.No.540 of 2021 pending on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.II, Madurai.

2. The facts and brief as per the records would go to show that, on 16.09.2019, when the respondent Police has searched the Cosmopolitan Hotel situated near the Madurai Railway Station, they found that the petitioner along with the sex workers committed immoral trafficking activities. The respondent Police seized a sum of Rs.57,200/-, cell phones and swiping machine from the accused, basing on which, a case has been registered in Crime No.731 of 2019 and the respondent Police have filed a charge sheet in C.C.No.540 of 2021 on the file of learned Judicial Magistrate No.II, Madurai, against the petitioners and others, which has taken cognizance for the offence under Sections 3 (1), 4(1), 4 (2) (a), 4(2) (c), 5(1) (a) and 5(1) (c) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is an innocent and in order to perform the marriage of his brother on 08.12.2019, he was looking for accommodation in various hotel and he came to that Cosmopo