Malik Sharief-Ud-Din, J.

( 1 ) THIS petition has been filed under section 482 Criminal Procedure Code. for quashing order dated 18th May 1983 passed by Shri Rajesh Kumar Metropolitan Magistrate, Shahdara, Delhi, and for quashing the complaint filed by respondent No. 1 and proceedings pending on the said complaint before Shri Sat Pal Metropolitan Magistrate, Shahdara, Delhi.

( 2 ) IT may be noticed that this Cr. Misc. (M) petition was originally moved by petitioner Dr. Asha Rawal who is working as the Medical Coordinator of M/s. Marie Stopes Society Clinic (hereinafter for short known as Society) affiliated to Population Services, a charitable institution based in U. K. with population and family welfare programmes, One of the objects of the Society is to educate and adherence to the Medical. Termination of Pregnancy 430 Act, 1971 (hereinafter known as MTP Act ). The other three petitioners, Bal Kishan Sharma, Naresh Kumar Sharma and Rajeev Kumar Sharma, father and brothers of one Smt. Tripta Sharma, were permitted to join as petitioners later on after they presented Crl. M. 1739/84 in this court. This was done by an order of this court dated 21-11-1984.

( 3 ) BRIEF facts are that o

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