Rakesh Kumar, J.

1. The sole petitioner, who is resident of Uttar Pradesh , while invoking inherent jurisdiction of this Court under Sec.482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, has prayed for quashing of order dated 28.11.1998 passed by Sri V. K. Singh, learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Begusarai in Complaint Case No.1017c of 1998. By the said order, the learned Magistrate has taken cognizance of the offences under Sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code against this petitioner and other five similarly situated accused persons, who are residents of different places.

2. Short fact of the case is that Opp. Party no.2 filed a complaint vide Complaint Case No.1071c of 1998 disclosing therein that he was a retail and wholesale dealer of clothes and he was purchasing clothes from different agents of the different places. It was disclosed that six accused persons, namely, (i) Roshan Lal, resident of Rourkela ( Orissa), (ii) Hanuman Prasad Mathura, resident of Jaleshwar ( Orissa) , (iii) Trilok Chandra Lohia , resident of Jorehat (Assam), (iv) Navranglal Banka, resident of Gorakhpur ( U. P.) , (v) Hari Prasad Chaudhary , resident of Jaipur ( Rajasthan) and (vi) Girish C