AJN 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1632 OF 2009 Manojkumar Rajendra Prasad Dubey & Ors. ... Petitioners Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ... Respondents Mr. M.P. Mishra for the petitioners. Mr. V.B. Konde-Deshmukh A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & R.G. KETKAR, JJ. DATED : 2ND JULY, 2009. P.C.:- 1. The petitioners have prayed that the FIR being C.R. No.139 of 2009 dated 20/4/2009 registered under Section 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code by Amboli Police Station at the instance of one Mayur Kumar Rajendra Patel be quashed. AJN 2 2. The case of the complainant is that the petitioners, who claim to be the directors of a private limited company being Searock Institute of Educational Research & Development Private Limited (for short, “the said Institute”), have collected about Rs.4,37,000/- from various students and promised them that they would give them necessary training for Diploma in Dual Cadetship. So far, about 20 students have approached the police with their grievance that the petitioners have cheated them. 3. We have carefully perused the complaint. The complainant has stated that the said Institute has no approval of the Director General of Shipping, India. The complaint, which runs into about four pages, gives meticulous details of offence of cheating alleged against the petitioners. The list of students, who have been defrauded is annexed to the petition. In our considered opinion, a complaint of this type cannot be quashed. The Investigating Agency must be allowed to conduct the investigation because the offence alleged is serious and is AJN 3 likely to affect several students. This is not a complaint which does not disclose any offence at all. Besides, we are told that the petitioners are not co-operating with the Investigating Agency. In the circumstance, the petition is dismissed. [SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.] [R.G. KETKAR, J.]