JUDGMENT- S.S. PARKAR, J.:---This petition has been filed under section 482 of the Cr.P.C. for quashing the Criminal Case No. 57/S/91 pending in the 44th Court of Metropolitan Magistrate at Andheri, Bombay filed by the respondent No. 1 as a private complaint.

2.The respondent No. 1 filed the aforesaid private complaint for offence under section 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957 against the petitioners on the allegation that about 75 photographs taken by him of the late Shri Raj Kapoor, a cine star and of the wedding of cine star Dimple Kapadia were published in the book under title "RAJ KAPOOR The Fabulous Showman" without his permission. The said complaint was filed on July 1, 1991 in which the process was issued against the petitioners by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate and, therefore, the present petition for quashing the said complaint.

3.The allegations made in the complaint are that the complainant was free-lance press photographer and as a free-lance news photographer he was intimately connected with the film newspapers, film weeklies, magazines, periodicals. It is further stated that he was also a free-lance journalist and correspondent and in that capacity he used to attend

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