The petitioner herein is the original 5th accused in Crime No.62/2000 of the Chrayankeezhu Police Station. The offences involved in this case are under Sections 143, 147, 148, 324 IPC, Sections 3 and 5 of the Explosive Substance Act and Section 27 of the Arms Act. After investigation the police submitted final report in court. He was arraigned as 4th accused in the final report, on which the learned Sessions Judge took cognizance. The other accused faced trial before the learned Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track-III), Thiruvananthapuram in S.C.Nos. 77/2003 and 723/2006, and obtained a judgment of acquittal on 01.07.2008, when all the material witnesses turned hostile to the prosecution in view of an amicable settlement made by the parties out of court. The case against the petitioner herein was split up and refiled as S.C.2178/2014. Now, he seeks orders quashing the prosecution against him, on the ground that the very substratum of the prosecution case stands totally lost by the acquittal of the others, and that it will be a futile exercise to continue the
