SWARAN SINGH Vs. JASWANT SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. filed by Dr. Swaran Singh for quashing the complaint fated 17.8.1996 filed by respondent, Jaswant Singh, under Sections 499, 500 and 501 of Indian Penal Code and pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Chandigarh bearing Criminal Complaint No. 222 of 21.8.1996 (Annexure P-1) and further for quashing order dated 17.3.1999 (Annexure P-5) passed by Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chandigarh, in the aforesaid complaint whereby the petitioner has been ordered to be arrayed as accused No. 3 in the complaint and was ordered to be summoned.

(2.) JASWANT Singh filed a complaint against Vijay Kumar, Editor, Publisher and Printer of Punjab Kesari and Shri Raj Sadosh, a local Journalist, who claimed himself to be a press correspondent of the Punjab Kesari Group of Newspaper, for preparing a false press report and the same was published and printed by Vijay Kumar, Editor, Publisher and Printer of Punjab Kesari in the daily Punjab Kesari published from Jalandhar on 3.8.1996. The news item, which appeared in the Punjab Kesari, reads as under :-

(3.) IN order to prove the allegations, respondent (complainant) examined 13 witnesses.