Judgment

D.P. Buch, J.— This is a petition filed under Sec. 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘the Code’) for quashing and setting aside the FIR filed in DCB police station of Surat City at Surat and registered as Cr. No. 1/14/2002 for the offences punishable under Secs. 208, 209, 210, 418, 423, 424, 468, 465, 471, 199, 193 and 120-B of IPC as well as under Sec. 34 of the IPC, 1860.

2. One Pankajbhai Harish-chandra Jani, shown as respondent No. 2 herein has filed the aforesaid FIR before the Commissioner of Police at Surat, a copy whereof has been placed at Annexure ‘A’ at page 31 to the petition. The said FIR has been filed by him as the Secretary of Ganesh Co-operative Housing Society Limited. The said FIR has been filed against more than 15 persons named in the said FIR. It relates to the offences said to have been committed by the respondents. The facts are stated in details in the FIR and mainly it has been stated that certain documents have been forged and fabricated by the respondents with a view to obtain certain benefits out of the said documents. It appears that an application has been filed before the learned Civil Judge (SD) at Surat in Special Civ