JUDGMENT :- By this application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applicant seeks to quash Crime No.3086/ 2006 dated 9-3-2006 under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Section 323 of Indian Penal Code registered on the basis of the report lodged by respondent no.2 (hereinafter referred to as "the complainant") on 8-3-2006.

2. The applicant is a highly qualified person and is a State Cabinet Minister in Government of Maharashtra.

3. On 8-3-2006 the complainant lodged a report at P. S. Sadar (Nagpur) alleging therein that on 7-3-2006 around 3 p.m. he gave good wishes from his mobile to Mr. Sanjay Mukherjee (Collector, Nagpur) on the latter's birthday, from his mobile. The complainant expressed his desire to greet the Collector personally by offering flower bouquet. Thereupon the Collector replied that he may come to the office at 3.30 p.m. Accordingly the complainant went to the Collector Office and waited outside the chamber of the Collector. Around 3.30 p.m. the applicant came there. When the complainant wished him, the applicant asked the complainant as to how he had come there. The complainan

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