ORDER

This petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.14 of 2020 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Poonamallee, thereby taken cognizance for the offences under Sections 143, 147, 149, 504, 294(b), 323 and 506(1) of IPC, in Crime No.1439 of 2017, as against the petitioners.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that on the complaint lodged by the second respondent, the first respondent registered a case in Crime No.1439 of 2017 for the offences under Sections 143, 147, 149, 504, 294(b), 323 and 506(1) of IPC, alleging that the petitioners are the members of Arappor Iyakkam, a voluntary, citizen's body. On the date of occurrence, a public meeting had been organized by the petitioners in which they spoke about the civic problems which they are facing in their localities. At that time, the first petitioner alleged to have spoken about the encroachment by the local Kalasathamman Temple officials on Government Poramboke land by a particular caste alone. Thereafter, there was a wordy quarrel between the petitioners and the defacto complainant and they attacked each other.

3. He would further submit that there are absolutely no s