1. This petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., is to quash P.R.C.No.136 of 2010, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Tambaram. The said case was taken on file based upon a complaint filed by the respondent herein under Section 200 Cr.P.C. for offences under Section 341, 324, 326 & 307 IPC read with Sections 34 and 109 IPC.

2. The petitioners are the accused 1 to 4 in the said case. According to the petitioners, the second petitioner and the father of the defacto complainant were running a financial company jointly as partners and at the time, the second petitioner was residing with his wife in the first floor of the defacto complainant's house for rent. It is stated that the second petitioner had to leave his native place, as his mother-in-law was ailing and his wife had handed over the gold ornaments to the respondent to keep them in safe custody till they come back. The allegation is that when they returned and asked for the jewells, evasive reply was given. Again a demand was made and it is alleged that the respondent's father made certain allegations. It is further stated that on account of the defamatory words used by the father of the defacto complaina