CAV ORDER

1. By preferring the present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, the ‘ Cr.P.C .’), the applicant has prayed to quash and set-aside the complaint being I-CR No.19 of 2014 registered with the Bilimora Police Station, District Navsari, for the offences punishable under Sections 406 , 420 and 114 of the Indian Penal Code .

2. The brief facts giving rise to the present case may be summarised as under :

(i) That the applicant is one of the Directors of the firm M/s.Wadher Travel Consultant, a company engaged in the business of recruitment for deployment of Indian workers with foreign employers and having a valid registration certificate issued by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India, and also approved by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India.

(ii) That the company had published an advertisement calling for recruitment of the workers to work for the ARB company in Iraq. Therefore, the complainant and 65 other workers had approached the accused nos.1 to 4, who are the agents of the Wadher Travel Consultant (for short, ‘the company’), and after charging Rs.80,000=00 from each of them towards the necessary expe