In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-11383 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:14.1.2010 Avtar Singh and another .....Petitioners v. State of Punjab and another .....Respondents .... Present: Mr. K.K. Aggarwal, Senior Advocate with Mr. R.K. Agnihotri, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. Mr. L.M. Gulati, Advocate for the complainant. ..... S.S. Saron, J. This petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking quashing of FIR No.161 dated 25.10.2008 registered at Police Station Sadar Sangrur for the offences under Sections 295 and 120-B Indian Penal Code and Section 4-A and 4-B read with Section 8 of the Punjab (Prohibition of Cow Slaughter) Act, 1955 (`Act' – for short) as also Section 3 of the Act which was added later. Learned senior counsel for the petitiones has inter alia contended that the offences as alleged in the FIR are not remotely made out and the case is based merely on hearsay evidence. A reference has also been made to the report of the Veterinary Officer regarding the bones which are stated to have been recovered and it is submitted that the recovered bones cannot be said to be that of cows. Cr. Misc. No.M-11383 of 2009 [2] The challan in the case has been filed on 3.9.2009, however, charge has not been framed. In my view, the contentions as raised herein would more appropriately be considered and gone into by the learned trial Magistrate at the time of consideration of framing charge. It is well known that a Court at the time of framing of charge is to sift and weigh the evidence for the limited purpose of finding out whether a prima facie case has been made out and it does not act merely as a mouth-piece or a post office of the prosecution. The total effect of the material and documents before the Court are to be considered for the limited purpose of framing charge. The learned senior counsel for the petitioners, therefore, prays that he may be allowed to withdraw this petition at this stage so as to enable him to urge the contentions as raised herein at the time of framing charge with liberty to assail the same in case the charge is so framed. Dismissed as withdrawn. January 14, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*