ORDER :

The petitioners are before this Court calling in question proceedings in C.C.No.9809 of 2022 pending before the XXI Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Bengaluru and consequently to quash the complaint that led to registration of Crime in the aforementioned criminal case instituted for offences punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (‘the Act’ for short).

2. Accused No.1/1st petitioner -OMR Investments LLP (for short ‘the Firm or Company’) is a limited liability partnership firm engaged inter alia in the business of construction and development of real estate. Accused No.3/Petitioner No.2 is a partner of petitioner No.1/Firm and accused No.7/petitioner No.3 is one of the authorized signatories of petitioner No.1/Firm. The petitioners in the companion petition i.e., W.P.No.8227 of 2022 are accused Nos. 2, 5 and 6. Therefore, accused 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are before this Court barring accused No.4. The complainant/respondent is common in both these petitions. Both these cases arise out of C.C.No.9809 of 2022 which arose out of the complaint in P.C.R.No.5711 of 2022 registered by the complainant. It is, therefore, both these cases are taken up