ORDER

Leave granted.

2. A complaint dated 25.8.1987 was received from one Shri Lakhu Bhai Pathak of U.K. whereupon a case under Section 120B read with Section 420 I.P.C. was registered against the appellants.

3. In brief, the allegations of the aforesaid complainant were that during the year 1983, the appellants came in contact with the complainant Lakhu Bhai Pathak and led him to believe that they wielded sufficient influence in India to secure for him lucrative contracts in India. It was further alleged that in the month of December, 1983, the appellants induced him to pay an amount of USS one lakh for procuring a contract for him. This amount was alleged to have been paid to appellant No. 1, Chandraswami, by two cheques, one for USS 27,000, dated 29.12.1983 and another for USS 73,000, dated 30.12.1983. Both the cheques were stated to have been handed over to appellant No. 1 on January 4, 1984 in New York.

4. Both the appellants denied the aforesaid allegations as being false and baseless. However, on the aforesaid complaint having been lodged, the appellants were arrested on 13.2.1988 but were ordered to be released on bail, vide order dated 17.2.1988 of the learned Addl. Chief Metr