O R D E R

The petitioners are accused Nos.2 to 9 in C.C. No.756 of 2019 pending before the Judicial First Magistrate Court-I, Kothamangalam. Accused no.1 is the daughter-in-law of the defacto complainant. The petitioners are the retired employees of Kothamangalam Service Co-operative Bank (for short ‘the bank’). The petitioners along with accused no.1 faced trial for the offences punishable under Sections 406 , 409, 419, 420 and 120(B) of the IPC .

2. Admittedly, the defacto complainant had two fixed deposits in the bank. The prosecution case, in short, is that accused no.1, who is the daughter-in-law of the defacto complainant, stole the above two fixed deposit receipts from the house of the defacto complainant and colluding with the petitioners, withdrew the amount covered by the fixed deposits by impersonation and thereafter deposited only a portion of the amount withdrawn.

3. The petitioners entered appearance before the trial court and filed an application. Thereafter, they approached this Court invoking Section 482 of Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings against them in C.C. No.756/2019. This Court as per Annexure A6 order disposed of the Crl.M.C. filed by the petitioners to quas