1. In this revisional application the four petitioners pray for quashing the proceeding of Case No. C - 2536 of 1977, now pending against them in the 6th Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate, Calcutta, under S.120B and S.420 of the Indian Penal Code .

2. The case has been instituted on a complaint filed by the opposite party, Radha Krishna Agarwalla, Managing Director of M/s. Calicut Engineering Works (P) Ltd., of 26A, Camac Street, Calcutta. The material allegations on which the complaint is based are as follows: -
The petitioner No. 1 is the Manager of the Machinery Division of Batliboi and Co. (P) Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Company) having its Branch Office at 26. R. N. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta. The petitioners Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are the Principal Officers of the Company and are attached to its Head Office at Bombay. The complainant was on the lookout of one Gear Robbing Machine which was to be installed at the complainant's factory at 1/2B, Khagendra Chatterjee Road, Calcutta - 2 for a better output in manufacture of Gear. The petitioners Nos. 2, 3 and 4 sent, on behalf of the Company, the petitioner No. 1, to the complainant's office in or about the middle of January, 1