Judgment Adarsh Kumar Goel, J. 1. This petition seeks quashing of complaint No. 44 dated 8.10.1999, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Talwandi Sabo, district Bathinda. 2. The objection of the petitioners is that at an earlier occasion, the police had investigated the matter and found the petitioners innocent, and proceedings under Section 182 IPC are pending against respondent No. 2, who is the complainant. It is submitted that while respondent No. 2 is being prosecuted for giving a false information, the petitioner are being prosecuted on the basis of same information, and since issue involved in prosecution of the petitioners on the basis of complaint and prosecution of respondent No. 2 in proceedings under Section 182 IPC is the same, both the cases be heard together. 3. Let the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bathinda pass an order clubbing both the cases and assigning the same to one Magistrate. 4. Counsel for the petitioners further argued that petitioner No. 1 was ASI and charge against him is under Sections 217/218 IPC. It is submitted that no sanction has been obtained and therefore, complaint against the petitioner No. 1 is barred under Section 197 of the Code of Criminal procedure (for short, the Code). 5. Counsel for the complainant relies on a judgment of the Supreme Court in K. Ch. Prasad v. Smt. J. Vanalatha Devi, 1987(2) Recent Criminal Reports 23. 6. After hearing counsel for the parties and perusing the judgment, I find no merit in the contention of the complainant that bar under Section 197 of the Code will not apply to the present case. The judgment relied on by the complainant is of a bank employee, who in the said case was held to be not covered by Section 197 of the Code. The present case is clearly covered by Section 197 of the Code. Accordingly, the proceedings against petitioner No. 1 are quashed. The petition is disposed of. Petition allowed.