JUDGMENT :

1. The petitioner has filed the instant petition for quashing of the criminal complaint titled “Sanjay Kumar versus Jatinder Pal and others” pending before the court of learned Additional Munsiff (JMIC) Samba (hereinafter referred to as the trial court) including the order dated 24.07.2012 passed by the learned trial court, by virtue of which process has been issued against the petitioner and respondent Nos. 2 to 5 for commission of offences under sections 323, 341, 506, 382, 511, 34 RPC.

2. It is stated that the petitioner and his son Rahul Vashisht had some business dealings with regard to certain gold items with one Navneet Kumar alias Navneet Verma S/o Rakesh Kumar R/o Ludhiana, who happens to be the nephew of the respondent No. 1. The said Navneet Kumar i.e. the nephew of respondent No. 1 in order to pressurize the petitioner and his son, on 21.04.2012 filed a civil suit in the court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) Ludhiana and during the pendency of the said suit, the petitioner and his son filed an application under Order 7 Rule 11Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) seeking rejection of the plaint but the said application was dismissed by the said Court. The petitioner t