1 WP1205/10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1205 OF 2010 Sadashiv Aagatrao Choure .... Petitioner. V/s Dilip Brahmadev Mane & Anr. ..... Respondents. Mr. Priyal G. Sarda for the Petitioner. Mr. A.S. Shitole, APP for the State. CORAM: V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 1st December, 2010 P.C:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the Petitioner. 2. Petitioner is the original complainant. He had filed a complaint against Respondent No.1 who had contested assembly elections held in 2004. It is alleged in the said complaint that he had given false information that no case was pending against him. It is, therefore, alleged that he had committed an offence punishable under section 199 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code. The said complaint was dismissed by the Trial Court and, thereafter, when that order was challenged by filing a revision application before the Sessions Court, the Sessions Court also dismissed the said 2 WP1205/10 revision application. 3. I have perused both the impugned orders. In my view, there is no infirmity in the said order passed by both the courts below. Hence, no case is made out for interfering with the orders passed by both the courts below. So far as offence under section 199 is concerned, it deals with the false statement made in declaration which is by law receivable as evidence. Section 195 of the Cr.P.C. lays down that no court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under section 199 of the Indian Penal Code, except on the complaint in writing of that Court and, therefore, the complainant has no legal right to file the said complaint. Similarly, the question of cheating the complainant on account of the said statement also does not arise. Both the Courts, therefore, were justified in not entertaining the complaint. Writ Petition is therefore dismissed. V.M. KANADE, J.