JUDGMENT :

Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.

1. The instant revisional application has been filed by the petitioners for quashing of the proceedings of G.R. Case No. 315 of 2011, pending before the Learned Judicial Magistrate 3rd Court, Contai arising out of Digha Mohona Coastal Police Station Case No. 1/2011 dated 20.04.2011 under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957.

2. The petitioner no.1 was the Secretary of the Digha Fishermen & Fish Traders Association, while the other three petitioners were respectively the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Assistant Secretary of the said Association. The said Association was an organization registered under the Societies Registration Act working for the upliftment of livelihood of “Fishermen and Fisheries Industry”.

3. Digha Mohona Coastal Police Station Case No. 1/2011 dated 20.4.2011 was registered for investigation on the basis of a complaint lodged by Sri Arup Kumar Mondal, the Block Land & Land Reforms Officer, Ramnagar-I with the Officer-in-Charge, Digha Police Station, inter alia, alleging commission of an offence punishable under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code re