JUDGMENT - R.M. LODHA, J. :---An application under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short "the Cr.P.C.") has been filed by the complainant Uttam aggrieved by the order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Amravati, on 19-1-1994 whereby he set aside the process issued by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Amravati and quashed the proceedings in Criminal Case No. 1260 of 1990 (Uttam v. Rajendrakumar and others).

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts giving rise to the present application under section 482 of the Cr.P.C. are that the applicant filed a complaint on 10-12-1990 under section 500 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code against the non-applicant Nos. 2 to 18 herein in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, First Class. It was alleged in the complaint that the complainant as well as non-applicant Nos. 2 to 16 are the Government servants serving in the Treasury Office at Amravati. The non-applicant Nos. 2 to 16 herein on 1-2-1990 lodged a false complaint to the Treasury Officer, Amravati, containing false imputation that the complainant had come in the office on 31-1-1990 in a drunken state and abused the Treasury Officer, Additional Treasu

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