1. This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the proceedings pending in C.C.No.2 of 2017, on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Attur, Salem District.

2. The case as found in the Private Complaint is that the de-facto Complainant was conducting a Chit Business at Attur till the year 2004, and petitioners 1 to 4 were subscribers to the said Chit and had paid a sum of Rs.8,50,000/-. This amount was not settled by the first respondent, and therefore petitioners 1 to 4 compelled the first respondent to execute a Power of Attorney in their favour. Left with no other option of the respondents executed a Power of Attorney in favour of the first petitioner, and the same was duly registered before the Sub Registrar, Attur. The first petitioner also compelled the respondents to hand over the original title deed which was a Sale Deed dated 23.08.1993. Thereafter, the second and third petitioners compelled the respondents to register another Power of Attorney and took the original title deed. Similarly, the fourth petitioner also got a Power of Attorney executed in his favour on 25.08.2004, and also received the original title deed. That apart, the