O R D E R

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.235 of 2023 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Cheyyar.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioners and others trespassed into the de facto complainant’s land and objected to the de facto complainant giving his land to the SIPCOT and participated in the Salem Express Way protest. Hence, the case.

3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners are innocent persons and they have not committed any offence as alleged by the prosecution. Without any base, the first respondent police registered a case in Crime No.319 of 2023 for the offences under Sections 147 , 341, 294(b) and 506(i) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 as against the petitioners and the same was taken cognizance in C.C.No.235 of 2023 for the offences under , 341, 294(b), 506(i) and 447 of the by the Judicial Magistrate Court, Cheyyar. He would further submit that in respect of co-accused, this Court, in Crl.O.P.