V.S. PURI Vs. SUKNA TEA & INDUSTRIES

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEARNED Advocate for both the parties are present. The case is taken up for hearing.

(2.) THE learned Advocate for the petitioner submits that the opposite party No. 1 has filed a complaint case before the learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate at Siliguri being C.R. Case No. 194 of 1996 impleading two of the officers of the Company viz. Opposite party Nos. 2 and 3. The present petitioner has been enumerated as accused No. 3.

(3.) THE accused 3 petitioner filed a petition before the learned Magistrate under section 205, Cr.P.C. praying for dispensing with his personal appearance and permitting him to be representated by his lawyer. But the learned Magistrate rejected the application.