JUDGMENT

Sardar Ali Khan, J - This is a petition to quash all further proceedings in C.C. No. 579 of 1987 on the file of XVI Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad.

2. The petitioner herein is A-2 in C.C. No. 579 of 1987. A private complaint has been filed by one S.P. Radhakrishna against Smt. D.L. Bhavani (A-1) and the petitioner under sections 468 and 471 read with section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. The matter is referred to the Station House Officer under section 156(3) Cr. P.C., for investigation and report The case has been registered as Crime No. 93 of 1987 and a charge sheet has been filed under the above sections.

3. The main ground on the basis of which the quashing of the proceedings in C.C. No. 579/87 is urged is that a forged document has been filed before the VI Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad in another case and the same is not trible by the XVI Metropolitan Magistrate in view of the provisions of section 195(1) (b), Cr. P.C. It may not be out of place to reproduce section 195(1)(b), Cr. P.C., Which is in the following terms:

"195. (1) No court shall take cognizance

(a) ..................

(b) (i) of any offence punishable under any of the following sections of t