ORDER :

Cr. M.P. No.2178 of 2015 & Cr. M.P. No. 394 of 2016

In these criminal miscellaneous petitions filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, petitioners have prayed for quashing the entire criminal proceeding in Sonari Police Station Case No. 156 of 2015 registered under Sections 406/420 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act.

2. Quashing of the entire criminal proceeding means, in this case, quashing of the First Information Report.

3. I have heard the counsel for the petitioners in both the cases and counsel for the State assisted by the counsel for the opposite party No.2-informant. Petitioners are the accused in the Sonari P.S. Case 156/2015.

4. Counsel for the petitioners submits that by no stretch of imagination, from bare perusal of the First Information Report, any offence is made out. They submit that when no offence is made out from the First Information Report, then the First Information Report is liable to be quashed. They submit that merely not keeping up a promise cannot be said to be cheating in terms of Section 415 of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted that from the First Information Report also there is nothing