JUDGMENT :

V.K. Shrivastava, J.

Petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code, for quashing the criminal complaint and proceeding in Criminal Case No. 797/2001 (K. Ravindra Nair v. K. A. Ravindranathan) pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (Ku. Pratibha Sathwane), Jabalpur.

2. Both, petitioner and respondent No. 1 are the members of Indian Coffee Workers Co-operative Society Ltd., Head Quarter 592, Malviya Marg, Jabalpur (MP). Indian Coffee Workers Co-operative Society Ltd. has its more than 50 establishments located in the States of M.P., Orissa, Kerala, A.P. and Chhatisgarh etc. The respondent No. 1 is working as a Senior General manager in the said society, prior to him the petitioner was the General Manager of the said society. In the month of March, 1999 for the membership of Managing Committee election took place and the petitioner contested to it, who lost the same. Thereafter he filed a complaint on 29-11-1999 against respondent No. 1 K. Ravindra Nair, O. K. Rajgopalan and P. S. Nair in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Durg, alleging that the Society had no branches at NTPC Nagpur and Padmanabhpur, however, under an il