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Briefly the case of the prosecution is that the present FIR was registered on a complaint of Constable Pradeep who was posted at P.S. IGI Airport in the capacity of process server, that while he was posted in the process server branch, On 15.05.1996 at about 08:00PM in the night he reached the house of accused No.1 P. A. Joseph s/o Shri S. M. Joseph for delivering the copy of summon issued against him under Section 446 Cr.P.C. from the Court of Shri Raghuvir Singh, the then ACCM, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi for his appearance before the Court on 22.05.1996. Thereafter on the same date the complainant has visited the premises of accused in the morning also, where he was informed about the nonpresence of accused the complainant had visited the premises of the accused on the night of the incident. The complainant further stated in his complaint that after reaching the place of the accused he handed over the notice of the court to the accused and requested the accused P. A. Joseph to sign the same, however, accused refused to sign and kept the copy of both the process with him and at that time there were three more persons present with accused P. A. Joseph started hitting the complainant and assaulted him and caused injury to him. The accused P. A. Joseph scratched with his nails on the chest of the complainant and due to the same the button of the shirt of the complainant were also torn. Thereafter he managed to escape from the spot and reported the matter to the police.