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Accused Nos.2 to 4 in S.T No.363/2015 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Paravoor, have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C to quash the proceedings against them in the aforesaid case.

2. The proceedings before the learned Magistrate arose upon a complaint filed by the Assistant Controller, Legal Metrology Flying Squad, Kadappakkada, Kollam alleging that one electronic balance used in a shop by name ‘Prem Fashion Jewellery’, Paravoor, for weighing big chains and heavy ornaments at the counter of that shop, showed readings which were higher than the maximum permissible error. It was thus alleged that the aforesaid manipulation was made to deceive the customers. The petitioners 1 and 2 are said to be the firm and its Managing Director who supplied the above electronic balance to that jewellery shop owner who has been arraigned as the first accused in that case. The third petitioner herein is said to be the staff of the petitioners 1 and 2 who had delivered and installed the above electronic balance at the shop of the first accused. According to the complainant in the said case, who has been arraigned as the second respondent in this petition