O RDER

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings in S.T.C.No.284 of 2022 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Padmanabhapuram, against the petitioners herein.

2. The case of the prosecution is that due to previous enmity between the petitioners and the second respondent with regard to the business unit done by the petitioners, the petitioners herein abused the second respondent by using filthy language and threatened him with dire consequences. Hence, the second respondent made a complaint before the first respondent and the first respondent registered a case in Crime No.170 of 2021 and the respondent Police thereafter conducted investigation and on completion of investigation, they filed a charge sheet before the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Padmanabhapuram and the same was taken on file in S.T.C.No.284 of 2022 for the offence punishable under Sections 294(b) and 506(1) IPC. Challenging the same, the present petition has been filed.

3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners and the second respondent are neighbours. He would further submit that during the pendency of the case since