Criminal Misc. No.M-4242 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-4242 of 2009 Date of Order: 13.02.2009 Dessa Singh ...Petitioner Versus Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority and another ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIVE BHALLA Present: Mr. Balbir Singh Jaswal, Advocate for the petitioner RAJIVE BHALLA, J (Oral). Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, is for quashing of the Complaint Case No.677, dated 10.02.2004, registered under Section 36, read with Sections 3, 5, 8, 9, 14 (2), 15, 18 and 21 of Punjab Apartment and Property Regulations Act, 1995, read with Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code and an order dated 18.12.2008, passed by the Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Amritsar. Heard. Admittedly, the complaint was filed on 10.02.2004 and is pending adjudication since then. The delay in impugning the complaint apart, the petitioner's submission that as he is neither a promoter nor an estate agent, the complaint could not have been filed against him, is a matter to be raised by the petitioner in his defence before the trial Court and, therefore, cannot be considered. With respect to the challenge to the order dated 18.12.2008, suffice it to say that Section 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, empowers a court, where any document is filed by the prosecution or the accused, to call upon the prosecution or the accused to admit or deny the genuineness of such document. The trial court has in Criminal Misc. No.M-4242 of 2009 -2- the exercise of its power under Section 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure called upon the petitioner to admit or deny the sale deed allegedly executed by the petitioner. The impugned order does not suffer from any error of law or jurisdiction as would require interference. Dismissed. February 13, 2009 (RAJIVE BHALLA) nt JUDGE