JUDGMENT :

Saurabh Shyam Shamshery, J.

1. Case called out in the revised list. None appears on behalf of the applicant to address the Court, however, learned Additional Government Advocate is present.

2. The matter is of the year 2010 and involved legal issue regarding which is the 'appropriate government' to file complaint in the present matter and therefore, I proceed to decide the application. The facts of the cases are similar in all three applications of the applicants, therefore, decided by a common judgment and order.

3. The present application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for quashing the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No.2896 of 2008, pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate/Civil Judge (Junior Division), Duddhi, Sonebhadra, which has been instituted by State of Uttar Pradesh through Labour Enforcement Officer, Pipri, Sonebhadra under Section 18 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.

4. From the perusal of the application, it appears that applicant establishment is Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station, situated at Shaktinagar, District Sonebhadra is a unit of the NTPC, owned and controlled by the Central Government.

5. The appellant has mentioned following grounds in the