COMMON JUDGMENT

These Criminal Appeals have been filed challenging the common order of the learned Principal District Judge, Karur, dated 27.11.2024, made in Crl.M.P.Nos.862 and 870 of 2024 in Spl.SC No.08 of 2024.

2.The appellants in Crl.A(MD) No.646 of 2025 are the accused Nos.2 and 3 and the appellants in Crl.A(MD) No.647 of 2025 are the accused Nos.4 and 5.

3.As per the case of the prosecution the first accused and the defacto complainant have been in love with each other and during that time, on the compulsion of the first accused and on the pretext of marrying her, the defacto complainant was subjected to repeated sexual intercourse with him. When the defacto complainant and her family members insisted the first accused to marry her, he refused to marry.

4.On 18.09.2023, at about 7:30 AM, the defacto complainant came to the house of the first accused, on hearing the news that the first accused is going to marry someone else, but the first accused was not there. The other accused abused the defacto complainant in filthy language and denigrated her by making casteist slur.

5.After completing the investigation, charge sheet has been filed against the first accused under Sections 4 1