KITABUN Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure assails the proceedings in Criminal Case No. 176 of 1963, State v. Bashir and others u/Secs.147/323/452/149/325, IPC pending in the court of Sri Ram Kumar, Special Magistrate,, Kanpur so far as petitioners are concerned.

(2.) ALL the petitioners are ladies, and were accused by Zamin Hussain who lodged an FIR against them and 15 others in police station Gantt. Kanpur relating to an incident dated 14-2-1962. The accusation was that the accused treapassed in his residential house ; dragged him out and belaboured him.

(3.) SRI M. C. Singh who tried both these cases examined the complainant and discharged the petitioners on 19-4--1965. That order of discharge became final as no revision etc. was preferred against it SRI Ram Kumar, Special Magistrate, Kanpur framed charges on 25-5-1978 against all the accused including the petitioners despite the objection preferred by the petitioners that the order dated 19-4-1965 operated as a bar to the trial of the petitioners.