ORDER

This petition is filed by the petitioners to quash the pending FIR in Crime No.229 of 2024 on the file of the Cumbum South Police Station, Cumbum.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the de facto complainant lodged a complaint stating that the de facto complainant is working as Vice Chariman of Cumbum Municipality. While so, in the year 2021, she along with one Thinakaran, Rathinakumar, Karpakaraj, Akri Murugesan @ Murugesan, Srisathyan, Janeetha, Raveeswaran, Praveen, Rajeshkumar and others run a textile business in the name of Suriya Fashion World. In the meantime, due to Covid-19 pandemic, the business was stopped and sustained loss. Thereafter, she run the same business in the name of Suriya Silks and Ready-mades. While so, the above said persons restrain the de facto complainant from conducting textile business. Thereby, the de facto complainant filed a petition before the learned Judicial Magistrate Court, Uthamapalayam. On 17.10.2024 at about 11.00 a.m., when the de facto complainant was proceeding to attend the municipal meeting, all the accused formed unlawful assembly and published obscene words and threatened and also they pasted the posters as against the de fac