JUDGEMENT

1. The petitioner invokes the inherent jurisdiction of this Court under Sec.482 of the Criminal P.C. (the Code for short) to quash the criminal proceeding (2 (c) C.C. No.23 of 1982) instituted against him under Sec.199 of the I.P.C. on a complaint made by the Registrar of this High Court.

2. In Cri. Revn. No.432 of 1979 of this Court in which Subash Chandra Mohapatra was the petitioner and the present petitioner was the opposite party, Mr. B.B. Mohanty, Advocate, had filed vakalatnama and appeared on behalf of the petitioner in that Criminal Revision. The present petitioner, who had been appearing in person, filed an affidavit in the court of Mr. Justice J.K. Mohanty, after the hearing was concluded, alleging relationship of the learned Judge with the petitioner in that revision. The learned Judge observed that the statement was not correct and directed that the matter should be placed before the learned Chief Justice for appropriate action. Under the direction of the learned Chief Justice, the Registrar of this Court, after an inquiry, submitted his report stating that the present petitioner had failed to prove his allegation. Thereafter the learned Chief Justice passed an