ORAL JUDGMENT :

Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Mr. A.M. Joshi, learned A.P.P. waives service for Respondent-State. With consent of learned Counsel for the parties, the petition is taken up for final disposal.

2. The present petition is being filed praying to quash and set aside the order passed by District and Sessions Judge, Bhandara in Criminal Revision No.38/2022 dated 04/02/225 and the order passed by Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Sakoli, in Summary Criminal Complaint No.366/2020 dated 20/04/2022. The petitioner is further praying to discharge him from the offences punishable under Sections 427, 504, 506, 352 and 294 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984.

3. Brief facts of the case are that:

On 02/07/2020, Smt. Asha Kadam, Office Superintendent at Government Polytechnic College, Shendurwafa, District Sakoli, lodged an FIR alleging that on the same day at around 3 p.m., the petitioner, accompanied by one Madhuri Nagdeve, entered her office and inquired about the petitioner’s salary and General Provident Fund. After Madhuri left, the petitioner allegedly broke the office glass with a rod. The petitioner