1. Notice to opposite party No. 2 is dispensed with since this court is proceeding to decide the case finally.
2. Heard Sri Ajai Krishna Yadav, learned counsel for the applicants as also the learned A.G.A. and perused the record.
3. The applicants herein have filed this application with the prayer to quash the entire proceedings of complaint case no. 112879/2024, including the order dated 13.11.2024 by means of which the protest application has been treated as complaint and the summoning order dated 22.09.2025 under section 354, 504, 506, 341 I.P.C., pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-V, Court no. 29, Lucknow.
4. It is case of the applicants that complaint case no. 112879/2024 is the genesis of the F.I.R. lodged by opposite party no. 2 under Sections 354, 504, 506, 341, I.P.C., which after due investigation resulted in final report No. 1 of 2023 and protest application moved by opposite party No. 2 has been wrongly treated as ‘complaint’ by the learned court below in violation of law propounded by Hon’ble the Supreme Court in the case of Vishnu Kumar Tiwari v. State of U.P., (2019) 8 SCC 27, wherein the procedure has been explained, which is to be adopted by the Magistrate while dealing with the protest application.