IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Writ Petition No. 188 of 2009 D. K. Pant ............. Petitioner Versus State of Uttarakhand and others .............. Respondents. Date: March 26, 2009 Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. Hon’ble B.S. Verma, J. (Stay Application No.2135/2009) [Per : Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J.] Heard Shri S.K. Posti, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Amit Bhatt, learned A.G.A. for the State/respondent Nos. 1 and 2. By means of this petition, the petitioner has sough writ of mandamus commanding the respondent No.2-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Champawat to permit the petitioner to appear before the Sessions Judge, Champawat directly. Also a writ of certiorari has been sought quashing the warrant of arrest issued against him by respondent No.2. Brief facts of the case are that Executive Engineer, Electricity Distribution Division, Champawat (respondent No.3) lodged a first information report against the petitioner and his son relating to offences punishable under Sections 147, 332, 504, 506 & 427 I.P.C. and one punishable under Section 3 (1) (X) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The allegations, in the first information report, are that when the subordinate officials of the respondent No.3 disconnected of electricity line on detecting theft of electricity, the petitioner’s son alongwith three others came in the camp office of the informant and hurled abuses at him and obstructed in discharge of his official functions. After investigation, chargesheet has been filed against both father and son. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and after going through the papers on record, we do not find any sufficient reason to grant the relief sought by the petitioner, before this Court. The writ petition is dismissed summarily with the observation that the petitioner may surrender before the court from where the non-bailable warrants have been issued against him and if bail application is moved the same may be decided in accordance with law. (Stay application No.2135/2009 also stands disposed of.) (B.S. Verma, J.) (P.C. Pant, J.) 26.03.2009 P.Singh