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AJOY KUMAR MUKHERJEE
Ram Niwas Giri – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
AJOY KUMAR MUKHERJEE, J.
1. Being aggrieved by the impugned proceeding arising out of Belur P.S. Case No. 73 of 2015 under section 341/323/468/471/506/34 of IPC, corresponding to GR Case No. 1852 of 2015, present application has been preferred with a prayer to quash the said proceeding.
2. The complainant/opposite party no. 2 claimed in the written complaint that he is the director of the company namely Lovely Trademark Pvt. Ltd. holding 500 equity shares in the company, which constitutes 50% of the total share holding of the company. Said company was incorporated on 08.11.2010 with two directors namely complainant and petitioner no. 1 herein Ram Nibas Giri, who started purchasing land in a small part from different sellers at Dankuni Hooghly, and the purchased plot of lands were registered in the name of the said company. It is alleged that the complainant was busy with field work in raising the assets of the company and the other director Ram Nibas Giri was in charge of the day to day office work of the company. Unfortaunately taking advantage of such trust and faith reposed on him by the petitioner, said Ramnibas Giri along with Ashoke Kumar Giri and Shivji singh who are
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