JUDGMENT :

SUDHANSHU DHULIA, J.

1. Permission to file SLP granted. Leave granted.

2. The facts taken into account in this order are from Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl) No.8403/2024 by considering it to be the lead matter. The appellant before this Court was made an accused in an FIR No.215/2022 at P.S Sector 20, Panchkula (Haryana) under Section 120B, 177, 406, 420, 467, 468, 471, 506 of IPC. This FIR has been lodged on the basis of information given by complainant-respondent no.3 (Jagbir Singh) where it has been alleged that the appellant impersonated himself as an Inspector General (IG) of Intelligence Bureau (IB) and threatened the complainant to transfer Rs.1,49,00,000 into the appellant’s account. As per this FIR, the complainant, who is in the business of pharmaceuticals, was coerced by the appellant to do business with the appellant’s associates and friends including one Dr. Komal Khanna (co-accused and appellant in criminal appeal arising out of Diary No.33284/2024) and money was extorted from the complainant’s firms by putting undue pressure on the complainant.

3. The FIR itself was filed on 29.10.2022. The complainant then filed a petition under Section 482 of the C