COMMON ORDER

These criminal original petitions are filed seeking quashment of the PRC No.13 of 2018 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate No.1, Padmanabapuram, respectively.

2.The case of the prosecution in brief:-

The de-facto complainant was working as a Village Administrative Officer and he lodged a complaint stating that on 31/05/2011 at about 6.00 am, the Revenue Department officials RDO, Tashildhar, Kalkulam Taluk, Village Administrative Officer of Verkilambi, inspected the place called 'Kayalkarai Pulikattu'. At that time, they found that one Appukuttan, Selvaraj, Manokaran, Chandran, Mohamed Sherif, Palraj and Velkilambi Manokaran were found in committing illegal sand mining activity in survey No.854/2, which is the Government poramboke land. From the place of occurrence, documents as well as the material objects were seized. So on the basis of the complaint given by the 2nd respondent, a case in Crime No.86 of 2011 has been registered for the offences under sections 465, 468, 471, 379 IPC and section 8(ii)(iii), 5(a) of Explosives Substances Act, 1908 and section 4(1), 4(1-A), 21(i) of Mines and Regulation and Development Act, 1957 r/w 36(4)(1) of the Tamil Nadu Mines and Mi