IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA CIRCUIT BENCH AT DHARWAD DATED THIS THE 14 DAY OP SEPTEMBER 2011 BEFORE FHE HuNBLE MR. JUSTICE ANAND BYRAREDDY CRIMINAL PETITION No. 10596/2011 BETWEEN: Sri\ 7 asudev s/o Ramrao Deshpande, Ag: Si vars, 0cc: Pensioner, R ‘o Rama Nivas, II Main, I Cross. N aravanpur Extension, Dhar\vad. - Petitioner (B\ Sri SM. Kalxvad, Advocate) A ‘D: 1. Man ipal Finance Corporation Ltd., Manipal, Dist. Udupi. 2. The Managing Director, Manipal Finance Corporation Ltd., Mainpal. Dist. Udupi. -Respondents (by Sri B.D. Hegde & S.B. Patil, Advocates) This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 482 of CrPC. sf’k1ng to quash the impugned order dated 0*02.20i I in unnumbered P.C.---/2010 passed by the Principal Civil Judge (Jr. Dn.) & Pri, J.M.F.C, Dharwad, This petition coming on for admission this day, the Court made he following: ORDER Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. It is the petitioner’s case that he had purchased redeemable debt bond certificates from a financial corporatjon with its head office at Manipal and the same were sought to he redeemed by the petitioner. It is the petitioner’s case that he was due a certain sum of money exceeding 64,OOO/-. It is on the Lri;is of this circumstance, that the criminal ices we alleged against the respondent. 2. The petitioner having approached the jursdictiona1 Magistrate of Dharwad, the Court has opined that the complaint would not be maintainable before the Court and that at best it could have been filed at Manipal or Udupi. It has further observed that the dispute apparently appears to be of a civil nature and therefore has g • .1 3 a held that the case was not maintainable. It is that order, which is sought to be challenged in the present petition. 3. In the opinion of this Court, the order of the Court below cannot be faulted. The petitioner is left to his remedies. The petition is without merit and is rejected. Sd! • JUDGE Bvv