The accused in C.C. 610 of 1979 on the file of the Additional Judicial Magistrate of the First Class, Ernakulam are the petitioners in this Criminal Miscellaneous Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The above complaint was filed by the 1st respondent herein under Section 200 of the Cr.P.C. for offences under Section 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. The 1st respondent supplied few lorry loads of scrap iron to Messrs. Standard Steel and Allied Products, Bangalore, a business concern run by the petitioners-accused. According to the 1st respondent, on behalf of the other petitioners, the 1st petitioner made representations to the 1st respondent at Ernakulam that the petitioners will make payment for the goods after they are delivered at Bangalore. The lorry charges will be paid as soon as the goods are delivered at Bangalore and the value of the goods will be sent later along with the additional copy of the invoice enclosed with the way bill. It was under the above arrangement that the 1st respondent supplied the goods to the petitioners. All the cheques issued for the value of the goods were returned by the Bank with