ORDER :

1. The petitioner is the sole accused in the case S.T. No. 1877/2015 pending in the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thrissur.

2. The aforesaid case is one instituted upon the complaint (Annexure-K) filed by the first respondent (hereinafter referred to also as ‘the complainant’). The offence alleged against the petitioner is punishable under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The petitioner was a Professor in the St. Thomas College, Thrissur. He was the Chairman of the company by name M/s. Cherupushpam Kuries (hereinafter referred to as ‘the company’). The complainant was the Deputy Chairman and a Legal Advisor of the company.

4. The company had engaged the complainant to institute suits for realisation of money due from the subscribers to the kuries conducted by it. There was an allegation that he did not institute the suits after receiving money from the company towards the expenses in that regard. Subsequently, the complainant resigned from the post of the Deputy Chairman of the company.

5. While so, one K.K. Ramadas, who is a lawyer, filed a writ petition [W.P. (C) No. 5239/2013] before this Court against the University of Calicut and the petitioner and some ot