1. Heard.

2. Rule, returnable forthwith. With the consent of the parties, taken up for hearing.

3. This is an application under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of the first information report on the basis of which Crime No. 86/2011 is registered at City Police Station, Khamgaon against 35 persons. The applicant being one of them, is seeking the relief only to his extent. His name appears as accused no.16.

4. The applicant herein has been arraigned in the list of accused in the capacity of being the Director of Shri Gajanan Urban Credit Co-operative Society Limited, Khamgaon. It is the case of the applicant that he had never applied for the membership of the said society and, therefore, there is no possibility of his being Director of the said Society.

5. The counsel for the applicant submits that upon getting the knowledge that he has been implicated as an accused in Crime No. 86/2011 registered at City Police Station, Khamgaon, the applicant had filed an application under the Right to Information Act seeking the details of the society and the information as to whether he was a member of the society. The Manager of the society by a letter dated 2.7.2011 (marked