Judgment

Javed Iqbal Wani, J.-Initially the instant petition came to be filed by petitioner seeking quashment of FIR No. 145/2020 for commission of offences punishable under Sections 417, 420, 34 IPC 1860 registered at Police Station Rajbagh, Kathua, Jammu, while invoking jurisdiction of this court under Section 482 Cr.P.C.

2. The FIR is contended to have been registered against the petitioners on the basis of a complaint filed by respondent No. 2 who had offered to purchase the land of the petitioners’ situated at Haria Chak Jammu in the month of October, 2017 and is contended to have given 8 cheques to the petitioners amounting to Rs. 17 lacs out of which some of the cheques got bounced and information whereof was given by the petitioners to the above complainant with the request to replace the cheques.

3. The complainant is stated to be a property dealer having devised a mechanism to purchase properties by making some advance payments and then creating disputes thereafter. The complainant is stated to have in the case of the petitioners as well, made some payments to them for purchase of their land and then created a dispute resulting into registration of the FIR in question.

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