JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioners have invoked inherent powers of this Court vested by Section 561-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure for seeking quashment of the criminal complaint entitled “Rekha Wangnoo vs. Umesh Sharma and others” as also orders dated 14th of December, 2015, and 20th of April, 2017, passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Budgam (“the Trial Magistrate” for short).

2. Briefly put, the facts leading to the filing of this petition are that the respondent herein, who shall be hereinafter referred to as the complainant, filed a complaint before the Trial Magistrate against the petitioners for commission offences under Section 193, 199, 209, 463, 464, 466, 469 and 120-B of Ranbir Penal Code for some alleged forgery committed with the Court. As per the complaint, the petitioners are related to each other. The daughter of petitioner No.3, namely, Preeti Sharma, is married to one Rajesh Qazi, brother of the complainant. Owing to strained relations and matrimonial dispute between the two, there is litigation pending in different courts at Ghaziabad, Jammu and Srinagar.

3. It is alleged that in the dispute between husband and wife, the petitioners along with the couple have also i