B.M. Lal, J. -- 1. This petition under sections 482 read with sections 397/401 Criminal Procedure Code is directed against an order dated 11.4.1987 by which the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chhindwara in Criminal Case No. 1034/87 while taking cognizance of an offence under section 500 Indian Penal Code directed issuance of process against the petitioner in accordance with provisions of section 204 Criminal Procedure Code.

2. Brief facts leading to this petition are as under:

Industrial consultancy Bureau Pvt. Ltd. Kalyan, Bombay (in short ICB Pvt. Ltd.) is a company registered under the Companies Act of which the petitioners No. 1 to 5 are directors, engineers and responsible officers.

3. The company is engaged in the business of engineering constructions. It entered into a contract with the complainant/respondent Kripa Shankar Bhargava to execute certain work on behalf of the ICB Pvt. Ltd. near Nandan site at Damua in district Chhindwara.

4. It appears that some dispute of accounts between the company and its officers on one hand and the complainant Kripa Shankar Bhargava on the other hand, arose and the same led to filing Civil Suit by the respondent Kripa Shankar valued at R