JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Mr. G. Taloh, learned counsel for the petitioner and also heard Ms. L. Hage, learned Additional P.P. for the State respondent.

2. This application, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, is preferred by the petitioner, Shri Lalit Kumar Singh, for quashing the Criminal Proceeding in Basar P.S. Case No. 01/2009, under section 409 IPC, pending before the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aalo.

3. The factual background, leading to filing of the present petition, is briefly stated as under:-

“On 22.01.2009, Shri Ghana Kanta Deori, the Branch Manager, Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank (APRB) Basar Branch lodged one FIR with the Officer-in-Charge, Basar Police Station to the effect that Shri Lalit Kumar Singh, the Branch Manager of (APRB), Basar Branch, up to 21.01.2009, has misappropriated a total sum of Rs. 11,36,000/ in different accounts and in different style from APRB, Basar Branch, during the period of his Branch Managership, in December 08 and January 2009. Upon the said FIR the Officer-in-Charge, Basar Police Station, registered Basar P.S. Case No. 01/2009, under section 409 IPC, and endorsed S.I. Talang Jamoh, to investigate the same. The I.