ORDER

K.Natarajan, J.

This petition is filed by the petitioner-accused No.3 under Section 438 of Cr.P.C., for granting anticipatory bail in Crime No.137/2019 registered by Cubbon Park police station, Bengaluru and charge sheeted for the offences punishable under Sections 120B, 420, 149, 423, 465, 468, 471, 506 of IPC, now pending on the file of VIII ACMM, Bangalore in C.C. No.23541/2019.

2. Heard the arguments of learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Senior Counsel for the respondent No.2 and learned High Court Government Pleader for the respondent No.1/State.

3. The case of the prosecution is that, a private complaint was filed by the respondent No.2 in PCR No.9076/2019 before the Magistrate and got it referred to the police under Section 156(3) of Cr.P.C. In turn, the police registered FIR and investigated the matter and filed charge sheet. It is alleged by the complainant that he met accused No.1/Praveen Surendiran, an employee of M/s OPC Assets Solutions Private Limited, Mumbai. The accused No.2 was software developer. The complainant along with accused Nos.1 and 2 launched a software based manpower service and repair centre. Accused No.2 was co-founder of a company by name