( 1 ) THIS petition under Section 482, Cr. P. C. has been filed for quashing of the proceedings of case No. 2 of 1986 pending in the Court of Special Judge Mirzapur.

( 2 ) A fair price shop being run by Sadhan Sahakari Samiti (a Co-operative Society) at Persanpur Sindhora in district Mirzapur was inspected by Mewa Lal Yadav, Senior Marketing Inspector. He found some irregularity in the distribution of Sugar and other essential commodities. Accordingly he lodged a FIR under Section 3/7 of the E. C. Act against the applicant Aditya Prasad Shukla who was secretary of the Society and Ravi Datt Singh who was incharge salesman.

( 3 ) THE applicant filed the present petition under Section 482, Cr. P. C. in this Court which was admitted and further proceedings of the case were stayed by the order dated 19-5-86. The other co-accused namely Ravi Datt Singh did not file any petition and consequently the case against him proceeded in the trial Court. It has been stated in the affidavit filed in support of criminal Misc. Application No. 1112/98 (Aditya Prasad Shukla v. State) that on 11-4-94 the State Government issued a Government order directing the public prosecutors through