JUDGMENT :

1. Heard the parties.

2. Both these criminal miscellaneous petitions have been filed invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. with a prayer for quashing the entire criminal proceeding including the FIR in connection with Baliapur P.S. Case No.156 of 2020, now pending in the court of Additional Sessions Judge-VI, Dhanbad.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that since the petitioner no.1- Sudhanshu Pandey of Cr.M.P. No. 2376 of 2021 died during the pendency of the case, hence, this criminal miscellaneous petition is not pressed in respect of petitioner no.1- Sudhanshu Pandey.

4. So Cr.M.P. No.2376 of 2021 is dismissed in respect of petitioner no.1- Sudhanshu Pandey as not pressed.

5. The allegation against the petitioners is that the petitioners being not the members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes intentionally insulted and intimated the informant and her husband who are the members of schedules tribes with intent to humiliate them and abused the informant and her husband by their caste name and assaulted them and threatened them to forcibly dispossess them from the land, the possession of which was entrusted to the informant