☐These appeals are filed by four appellants, who were arrayed as accused persons in the complaint filed by the respondent herein before the Court of Judicial Magistrate No.II, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil ... Nadu. The complaint has been filed. The learned Judicial Magistrate took cognizance of the said complaint and summoned the appellants. The appellants challenged the said summoning orders and sought quashment of the complaint by filing petition inasmuch as according to them the allegations in the complaint did not make out any offence under the aforesaid provisions of the IPC; the complainant had neither any locus standi nor any legal status to prefer any such complaint; the appellants being public servants and Gazetted officers of the State Government of Chhattisgarh, no such criminal proceedings could be initiated against them prior sanction from the appointing authority as per Section 197 of the Cr.P.C.; and the complaint was blatant misuse and abuse of the process of Court which was filed by the complainant after exhausting the civil remedies in which he had failed. The High Court, after examination of the matter, has not found any merit in any of the aforesaid contentions raised by the appellants and, consequently, dismissed their petitions.