IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No.287 (M/B) of 2010 Vimal Mehrotra ……Petitioner Versus State of Uttarakhand .…Respondents Mr. Yogendra Handu, Advocate holding brief of Sri C.S. Rawat, learned counsel for the petitioner Mr. S.S. Adhikari, learned A.G.A. for the State/respondents. Dated 26th April , 2010 Hon’ble B.C. Kandpal, J. Hon’ble Nirmal Yadav, J. By means of this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has sought the relief for issuing a writ in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned cognizance order dated 16.01.2010 passed by the Judicial Magistrate, Ramnagar District Nainital in criminal case no.131 of 2010 State Vs. Parmanand & ors. under section 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. Brief facts of the case are that a First Information Report was lodged against the petitioner and certain other persons under section 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. Police thereafter investigated the matter and submitted the charge sheet against the petitioner as well as certain other persons on 12.01.2010. The petitioner has thus challenged the charge sheet filed by the police in this case. 2 Heard Sri Yogendra Handu, Advocate holding brief of Sri C.S. Rawat, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri S.S. Adhikari, learned counsel for the State/respondents and perused the material available on record. It is pertinent to mention here that petitioner has still the remedy available for challenging the charge sheet as well as for getting the impugned cognizance order quashed by way of the petition under section 482 Cr.P.C. We thus, find no ground to interfere in the matter for the reason that alternative remedy is available to the petitioner in this case. The Petition is accordingly dismissed. However, it is open for the petitioner to approach to the Court for quashing of the charge sheet as well as FIR arising out of criminal case no.131 of 2010 by way of the petition under section 482 Cr.P.C. (Nirmal Yadav, J.) (B.C. Kandpal, J.) JKJ 26.04.2010