THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.471 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner approaches this Court with a prayer to quash the F.I.R registered against him for the offence under Section 353 of IPC. The case of the de-facto complainant is that the petitioner entered into his house and handed over some loan application and demanded the same to be processed immediately. On failure, he will be removed and also the petitioner beaten the de facto complainant. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that even assuming for a moment that the allegations are true, an offence under Section 353 of IPC has not attracted, since the occurrence is not while discharging of the official duty by the de-facto complainant. The learned counsel further submitted that the complaint is highly improbable, since without any provocation or refusal by the person concerned, the petitioner assaulted him is highly improbable and unbelievable. In the circumstances, this Court is of the view that wrong registration of the provision of law does not preclude the investigating agency from investigating the matter and the matter has to be investigated by the investigation officer. The investigation officer is hereby directed to investigate the matter without harassing the petitioner herein, taking into consideration the submissions made by the petitioner in the present petition. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. Miscellaneous petitions, if any, filed along with this petition shall stand closed. ________________________ RAJA ELANGO, J 24th January, 2011 VJL/RNS