ORDER :

1. The two petitioners herein seek quashment of FIR dated 07/12/2012 in Crime No. 178/2017 registered at Police Station Batauli, Distt. Surguja for offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 read with Section 34 of the IPC and Section 120B of the IPC and Sections 3(1)(p½¼N), 3(2)(v)( d) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

2. The challenge in the instant petition has been made on the following factual backdrop :

2.1. That, Gaya Prasad S/o Vishwanath, Balgovind S/o Shobhnath and Satyanarayan S/o Shobhnath through their power of attorney holder namely Vinay Kumar Soni executed two sale deeds dated 16/09/2010 in favour of Sanjeev Sharma, Deputy General Manager, Ultratech Cement Ltd thereby, transferring the subject land in his favour on the premise that they are the titleholders of the subject land and they are competent to alienate the said subject land and in which the present two petitioners stood as witnesses by attesting the sale deeds.

2.2. Subsequently, complaint was made to the Collector that the said land was not owned by the sellers named above and it is Government land/land held by aboriginal tribes, which could