JUDGMENT :

A.S. SUPEHIA, J.

1. In the present writ petition, the petitioners seek quashing of F.I.R. being C.R. No. I-225 of 2017 registered with Manjalpur Police Station, Vadodara City, District Vadodara for the offences punishable under sections 143, 147, 394, 323, 504, 506(2) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (the IPC) as well as sections 3(1)(r), (s), (zc) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (the Atrocities Act) as well as all consequential proceedings pursuant to the aforesaid F.I.R. by exercising powers under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1974 (the Cr.P.C.).

2. The facts of the case as mentioned in the memo of the application are as under:

2.1 Respondent no. 2-the first informant has filed the impugned F.I.R. alleging, inter alia, that the mother of respondent no. 2 got married to one Fakirbhai Katara, after the death of father of respondent no. 2. It is the case of respondent no. 2 that house of the accused Ishaan Gandhi is situated next to the house of the mother of respondent no. 2, where the accused Ishaan Gandhi was running his factory. It is alleged that the stepfather of respondent no. 2 had given comp