O R D E R

This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking for a direction to the respondent police to re-investigate the case.

2. The petitioner is the de facto complainant. He gave a complaint to the respondent police on the ground that the accused persons trespassed into the property belonging to the petitioner and caused serious damage and when this was questioned, they abused the petitioner in filthy language and criminally intimidated him and also abused him using his caste name. An F.I.R. came to be registered in Crime No.182 of 2012 for offense under Sections 147 & 427 IPC and Section 3(1)(X) of SC/ST Act. After the completion of investigation, a final report came to be filed against six accused persons for offenses under Sections 147 & 427 IPC and the same was taken on file by the Court below in STC No.854/2017.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the respondent police did not conduct the investigation properly and the offence under Section 3(1)(X) of SC/ST Act was intentionally dropped in the final report even without putting the petitioner on notice. The learned counsel submitted that the case requires further investigation and some of the witness