ORDER

1. Leave granted.

This appeal is filed by the Appellant, who feels aggrieved by the order dated 13th January, 2012 passed by the High Court of Karnataka in Criminal Petition No. 5007 of 2009 that was preferred by him. The said petition was filed by the Appellant Under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 praying to set aside the orders dated 17.01.2009 passed by the Civil Judge (Junior Division)-cum-Judicial First Class Magistrate, Mandya in Complaint Case No. 3/09. Vide the said orders, the learned Magistrate had taken cognizance of the complaint preferred by the Respondent herein under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The Appellant sought quashing of the proceedings in the said criminal complaint but the High Court has dismissed the petition of the Appellant vide the impugned order(s). That is how the Appellant is before us in the present appeal.

2. To state the facts in brief:

The Respondent has filed a criminal complaint Under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code alleging that there is an office of criminal defamation committed by certain persons inasmuch as in the publication titled "Lankesh Patrike" dated 25.12.2008, a defamatory article is publis