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The petitioners herein are accused in the impugned FIR No.1215/2014 of the Ernakulam Central Police Station (referred to in Anx.I), registered offences punishable under Secs.143, 147, 149, 238 & 294(a) of the I.P.C. r/w Sec.118(a) of the Kerala Police Act, 2011. The Police, after investigation has filed the impugned Anx.1 final report/charge sheet for the abovesaid offences, which has been taken into file as Calendar Case, C.C.No.1127/2014 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate's Court-II, Ernakulam. The gist of the allegations therein is that the accused persons, who are women, by standing at Shanmugham Road at Ernakulam, in front of Swapnil Flat, had raised slogans against the atrocities of offences committed towards women and that they had exposed nudity and had caused obstruction to the commuters and vehicles and thereby committed the above offences, etc. It is the case of the petitioners that in June, 2014, at Badaol in the State of Uttar Pradesh, two Crl.M.C.6748/14 - : 2 :-

Advocates practising before this Court and even the respondents at the time of arguments, have not in any way seriously disputed that the petitioners are women activists and who were espousing the cause of womens' rights so as to protest against the heinous and grave offences committed against women and teenaged girls. In the light of these aspects, it cannot be held that the offences under Secs.143, 147 & 149 of the I.P.C. and Sec.118(a) of the Kerala Police Act are seriously disclosed in the facts and circumstances of this case.