RAM GOPAL PURI Vs. ZEPELLIN SALES AND ANOTHER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973 seeking quashing of the criminal complaint No. 125 dated 30.4.2002 titled as M/s Zeppelin Sales and another vs. M/s Mukerian Paper Ltd and others (Annexure P1) and summoning order dated 23.10.2003 (Annexure P2) along with all consequential proceedings arising thereto .

(2.) Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that at the relevant time, when the cheques were issued, petitioner was no longer the Director of the Company. Petitioner has resigned from the Company with effect from 1.11.1999. Learned counsel has further submitted that the complaint in question was quashed by this Court qua the similarly situated co-accused-Ashwani Kumar vide order dated 1.4.2008 (Annexure P4).

(3.) None has appeared on behalf of the respondents. This Court, while allowing the petition filed by the coaccused-Ashwani Kumar, (Annexure P4) has held as under:-