The petitioners/accused 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are before this

Court calling in question registration of a crime in Crime No.35 of

2020 for offences punishable under Sections 406, 420, 120B and 34

of the IPC.

2. Brief facts that lead the petitioners to this Court in the

subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:-

The 2^nd respondent is the complainant and proprietor of SRS

Travels. The 1^st petitioner is Scania Commercial Vehicles India

Private Limited (8Company9 for short) and other petitioners are

either Managing Director, Director or office bearers of the 1^st

petitioner/Company. The 2^nd respondent is a transport operator

operating fleet of buses. The 1^st petitioner deals with sales of buses.

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In the year 2013 the 1^st petitioner and the complainant entered into

certain transaction with regard to sale and purchase of buses. The

purchase of buses was financed by Volkswagen Finance Private

Limited (hereinafter referred to as 8the Financier9 for short). The

complainant purchased buses from the 1^st petitioner throughout the

period between 2013 and 2018. The complainant appears to have

defaulted in payment of installments to the Financier. This led the

Financie