Hon'ble MEHTA, J.—The instant miscellaneous petition has been filed by the petitioners seeking quashing of the proceedings of Cr. Case No. 336/2007 Dinesh vs. Shekhar & Ors. pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate No. 3, Bhilwara for the offence under Section 500 IPC.

2. Succinctly stated the facts of the case are that the respondent No. 1 Dinesh Kumar Pareek filed a complaint in the Court of Judicial Magistrate No. 3, Bhilwara against the petitioners for the offences under Sections 500 and 501 I.P.C. The allegation levelled in the complaint was that a news article was published in Hindustan Times, Jaipur Edition on 29.11.2005 the caption whereof was "Corrupt Manager that the respondent No. 1 Dinesh Kumar Pareek being to Assistant Manager in the R.F.C. was convicted by the Special Court at Udaipur and was sentenced to one year R.I. and a fine of Rs.. 1000/-.

3. The complainant filed the complaint with the specific allegation that the news article referred to in the complaint was published in the daily news paper Hindustan Times Jaipur Edition was defamatory and false. It was alleged that Shekhar Bhatia being its Editor, Rakesh Sharma, being the Printer and Publisher as well as th

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