JUDGMENT :

Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Accused applicant has preferred this Criminal Miscellaneous Application, under Section 482 CrPC, seeking to quash the chargesheet dated 6.2.2023, summoning order dated 22.2.2023 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 204 of 2023, under Sections 409 and 477-A IPC, pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Pauri Garhwal.

2. Factual matrix giving rise to present petition is that the accused applicant was appointed as Training and Placement Officer (TPO) in Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology, Pauri Garhwal on 07.01.2006. Pursuant to an advertisement dated 3.1.2017 for the post of Registrar, applicant applied and he was ultimately selected and appointed as Registrar of the said Institute on 2.12.2019. Vide order dated 19.8.2021, passed by Additional Chief Secretary, Technical Education, applicant was attached with Nanhi Pari Simant Engineering College, Pithoragarh, and charge of Registrar of Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology was given to one Dr. Y. Singh on 24.8.2021. Feeling aggrieved, applicant filed WPSB No. 373 of 2021, which was allowed by this Court vide judgment dated 21.9.2021 and