IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 10-02-2026 CORAM THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN Loganathan ..Petitioner(s)

Vs The State Rep By, The Inspector of Police Valathy Police Station, Crime No.186 of 2024.

..Respondent(s)

To allow this Criminal Revision Petition, set aside the order passed in Crl.MP.No.2 of 2025 in CC.No.215 of 2024 by the Learned Judicial Magistrate, Gingee and discharge the petitioner from C.C.No.215 of 2024 on the file of Learned Judicial Magistrate, Gingee.

For Petitioner(s): S.M.Muralidharan For Respondent(s): Mr.R.Vinothraja Government Advocate(Criminal Side)

ORDER

The revision challenges the dismissal of the discharge petition filed by the petitioner/A4.

2. It is the case of the prosecution that, on account of prior enmity, the first accused attacked the witnesses with a knife and that the petitioner/A4, along with two others, attacked L.W-3 with a wooden log and thus committed the aforesaid offences.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the allegation under the Tamil Nadu Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1959 cannot be sustained, as even according to the prosecution, the banner said to have been erected by the vic