IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. -M No. 3955 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision : November 25, 2008 Ravinder Sachdeva and others ....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and another ....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pritam Pal Present : Mr. Kuldeep Sanwal, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. IPS Sidhu, Sr. DAG Punjab Pritam Pal,J. (Oral) Petitioner has brought this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of F.I.R. No. 59 dated 20.5.2000 under Sections 406, 408 of the Indian Penal Code registered at Police Station Mandi Gobindgarh, District Fatehgarh Sahib and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom. The allegations against the petitioners are that they had not disbursed the provident fund to the employees of the factory. Learned counsel for the petitioners states that, in fact, factory of the petitioners is lying closed since the year 2001. In this case petitioners have also been charge sheeted by the trial court. Not only that some evidence of the prosecution is also stated to have already been recorded and now the case is fixed for 9.1.2009 for recording the remaining evidence. It is also stated by Criminal Misc. -M No. 3955 of 2008 (O&M) -2- learned counsel for the petitioners that recovery of provident fund is also disputed. All these questions can also be gone into by the trial court, that too on the appraisal of the evidence which is being recorded. In these given facts and circumstances, no case is made out for quashing the FIR. Dismissed. ( Pritam Pal ) November 25, 2008 Judge 'dalbir'