Judgment Reserved on : 10.11.2025 Judgment Delivered on : 11.12.2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Application No.1904 of 2021 Brij Mohan Painuly and Another .....Applicants Vs.

State of Uttarakhand & Another ...Respondents Presence: Mr. Shailendra Nauriyal, learned counsel for the Applicants.

Mr. N.S. Kanyal, learned counsel for the State.

Mr. D.S. Mehta, learned counsel for Respondent No.2.

Hon’ble Ashish Naithani, J.

1. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed by the Applicants, namely Brij Mohan Painuly and his son Lalit Mohan Painuly, seeking quashing of the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 69 of 2021, titled State vs. Brij Mohan Painuly and others, pending before the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dehradun. The Applicants further seek quashing of the charge-sheet submitted in the said case, as well as the cognizance and summoning order dated 04.04.2021 passed by the learned Magistrate, whereby they were summoned to face trial for offences punishable under Sections 406, 506 and 120 B IPC.

2. The genesis of the criminal proceedings lies in a complaint lodged by Respondent No. 2,