HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7003 OF 2010. DATED 19TH JULY, 2010. BETWEEN T.Balan and anr ….Petitioners and The State of AP, rep. By its Public Prosecutor and anr …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No. 7003 OF 2010. ORDER: This is a petition ﬁled under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking to quash the proceedings in FIR No. 190 of 2010 of the Two Town Police Station, Ananthapur. The oﬀence alleged against the petitioners is under Sections 419 and 420 IPC. The case of the prosecution in brief is that the defacto complainant along with others entered into a partnership deed dated 6.12.2003 to carry out mining business at Ananthapur in the name and style of S.R. Minerals and mutually agreed to reduce the objectives, terms and conditions of partnership into writing. Thereafter some other members were included/admitted as partners of the said ﬁrm. However, on verification of alleged deed of admission cum retirement of partnership basing on which the District Registrar Ananthapur mutated entries, it was observed that the signatures were forged and the document is fabricated by the petitioners herein in conspiracy and collusion with others to become partners in SR Minerals. According to the defacto complainant, A1 and A.2/petitioners herein have been arrayed as partners and M.Rajgopal and K.MaheedharReddy have been deleted from the array of partners without the knowledge, express consent and approval of the partners. Hence the complaint. Heard both sides. It is submitted by the learned Counsel for the petitioners that the defacto-complainant ﬁled the complaint against the petitioners with malaﬁde intention and as per the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Bajanlal Vs. State of Haryana (1992 SCC Suppl.1. 335), the said complaint ﬁled with malafide intention is liable to be quashed. On a perusal of the records it revels that there is no such malaﬁde intention in ﬁling the complaint. Further with regard to the allegations levelled against the petitioners, this Court is of the view that when the FIR is registered on the basis of cognisable oﬀence, this Court while exercising powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has no jurisdiction to go into the reliability and genuineness of the allegations made in the FIR and it is the prerogative of the Investigating Oﬃcer to verify the same. The Investigation Oﬃcer is hereby directed to verify the genuineness and reliability of the allegations made in the complaint and ﬁle charge sheet either way. In view of the reasons stated above, this Court is not inclined to quash the proceedings. With the above observation, the Criminal Petition is dismissed. ----------------------------------- JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO DATED 19T H JULY, 2010. Msnr.