O R D E R

This Criminal Original Petition is filed to quash C.C.No.564 of

2022, pending on the file of Judicial Magistrate - I, Alandur, is filed by the first accused.

2. The quash petition is filed on the ground of maintainability and lack of territorial jurisdiction.

3. According to the petitioners/accused, under the cloak of criminality to a matter purely civil and commercial in nature, the final report on the complaint dated 23.04.2009 registered in F.I.R No.341 of 2009, erroneously and belatedly taken on file by the Learned Judicial Magistrate-I, Alandur, in C.C.No.564 of 2022 against petitioners as the Proprietor of M/s.Empire Minerals & Transports (Wound up in the year 2012) as first accused and M/s.Empire Minerals & Transports as second accused.

4. The 1st petitioner as sole Proprietor was carrying on business in the name of M/s.Empire Minerals & Transport. He was involved in buying and selling iron ore within India. The business was wound up in the year 2012 due to financial losses and hardships faced. M/s.Steel Overseas Private Limited and his firm entered into five agreements from 28/11/2008 to 05/01/2009 with regard to supply of iron ore. Though the iron ore supplied as agre