This petition has been filed to quash the charge sheet in S.T.C.No.63/2015 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate, No.II, Madurai.
2. On the suo motu complaint, an FIR was registered in Crime No.249/2015 by the respondent police under
Section 170 IPC against the petitioner and after completing the investigation, the 1st respondent has filed a final report in STC No.63/2015 before the Judicial Magistrate, No.II, Madurai. Challenging which, the petitioner is before this Court for quashing the prosecution.
3. It is the case of the prosecution that when the Inspector of Police, Tallakulam Police Station was on rounds, he found a name board titled 'Citizen for Human Rights Movements, D.No.6, Vallabai Road, Chokkikulam, Madurai' and on further enquiry, it came to the notice of the police that the petitioner is masquerading himself as the champion of human rights without proper credentials. Since the charge sheet prima facie discloses the commission of the alleged offences, it is not a fit case to quash the prosecution, in the light of the law laid down in State of Haryana and others v. Bhajan Lal and others reported in 1992 Supp (1) SCC 335.
4. In the result, this petition is dismissed as devoid of merits with a direction to the trial Court to complete the trial within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, on condition that the petitioner shall cooperate with the trial by cross examining the witnesses on the day, when they were examined in chief, without adopting any dilatory tactics.
To:
1.The Judicial Magistrate, No.V, Tiruchirappalli
2.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai..