(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under sections 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, to call for the records in C.C.No.2 of 2008 and quash the charges framed on 02.11.2010 under Sections 120B r/w 406 of the IPC and under Section 23(1) & 25 r/w Sections 4, 6 and 13 of the FCRA on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Coimbatore.)

1. This Original Petition has been filed seeking to quash the criminal proceedings, dated 02.11.2010 in C.C.No.2 of 2008, pending on the file of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Coimbatore, against the petitioner for the offences under Sections 120B, 406 & under Sections 23(1) & 25 r/w Sections 4, 6 and 13 of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976.

2. The allegations as set out in the Final Report against the petitioner/A-2 are that M/s.Reach In the Nilgiris is a Society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975 and it had been registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976, during the year 1992 to receive and utilize foreign contribution for specific purposes, for which it was formed. The petitioner/A-2 had been functioning as a Treasurer of the said Society from the Nilgiris