JUDGEMENT
VEDPAL, J. -
(1.) THIS petition under Section 482, Cr.P.C. has been filed by the petitioners for quashing the summoning order dated 28-8-2008 passed by the learned A.C.J.M., District Pratapgarh in Complaint Case No. 1483 of 2008 under Sections 379, 147, 323, 504, 506, I.P.C. and under Section 3 (i) (x) of the SC and ST Act.
(2.) NOTICE on behalf of the opposite party No. 1 has been accepted by the learned A.G. A.
Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned A.G.A. for the State.
(3.) LEARNED Counsel for the petitioners submitted that the petitioner Chotey lal had filed a civil suit for permanent injunction and a complaint against Chotey Lal Saroj and Ors. for the offence punishable under Sections 147, 148, 323,504,506, 427 and 452, I.P.C. which was numbered as complaint case No. 110/2008 and wherein accused persons were summoned on 15-4-2008. That as a counter-blast, the opposite party No. 2 Chotey lal Saroj filed the complaint Case No. 1483/2008 under Sections 379,147, 323, 504,506, I.P.C. against the petitioners on false ground with mala fide intention and it is wrong to allege that the petitioners had ever abused Chotey lal or had ever committed theft or had damaged the watch of Chotey lal. That Shri Nanhey lal who was examined as witness under Section 202, Cr.P.C. in support of the complainant had given an affidavit to the effect that his statement was never recorded in the Court and his signature was obtained on a blank paper fraudulently by Shri Ajit Kumar Singh, Advocate who belongs to his village and utilised the same to prepare his statement under Section 202, Cr.P.C. That the learned Magistrate had not considered the case properly and has summoned the petitioners to face trial in an arbitrary manner and as such the said complaint is liable to be quashed, learned Counsel for the petitioner relied on the case of Zandu Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd. and Ors. v. Mohd. Sharaful Haque and Anr., 2005(2) JIC 188 (SC) : 2005 SCC (Cri) 283.;
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