ORDER :

J. C. DOSHI, J.

At the outset, it is required to be noted that, present petitioner have not pressed for this application insofar as the offence punishable under the IPC. Thus, this application is confined to the offence punishable under the Atrocities Act.

2. By way of this petition, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioner prayed for quashment of the FIR being C.R. No. I - 102 of 2018 registered with Navrangpura Police Station against the petitioner for the offences punishable under Section 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s) of The Scheduled Castes And The Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

3. The short facts of the case as emerging from the FIR are that the petitioner herein is a Chartered Accountant. That, the original complainant was employed with the petitioner's wife's firm namely Icon Financial in deals Services which financing. The complainant was micro supposed to collect the money from the field executives of Icon Financial Services and personally deposit this cash with bank account of the firm Icon Financial Services. As admitted by the complainant himself in the F.I.R, the complainant has stolen an amount of more than Rs 2.88 lakhs from