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This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking for a direction to the learned Subordinate Judge/Assistant Sessions Judge, Vedasandur to dispense with the petitioner's evidence in S.C.No. 2/2017 and consequently, recall the warrant without the petitioner's presence.

2.The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner is L.W.17 in S.C.No.2 of 2017 and he was one of the Investigating Officers in this case. The said case in Crime No.112 of 2014 was registered in respect of an occurrence, dated 13.07.2014, wherein, the accused group attacked the de-facto complainant during a dispute in a temple car chariot festival. The role of the petitioner in the investigation of this case is to an limited extent that he has examined some of the witnesses and arrested the accused Nos.4, 5, 12, 13 and 14 and obtained their confession statements and prepared the athachi and mahazar. Subsequently, the investigation has been conducted by yet another Investigating Officer namely, Mohankumar, who is the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Vedasandur Sub Division and that he has filed the final report. The petitioner got promoted as Deputy Superintendent of Police during t