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Present petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking quashment of the complaint which has not been filed by the appropriate authority or Officer authorized and the order taking cognizance passed by the trial court in the Complaint Case No. 582/2013 and has challenged the entire proceedings initiated in the said case pending before the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Bilaspur.

2. Brief facts of the case is that the petitioner is a pathologist practicing in Bilaspur for the last many years and for the purpose of pathological diagnosis, he has installed the Sonography machine. In the year 2011, a criminal complaint was preferred against the petitioner for commission of the offence punishable under Section 3 & 4 of the Pre- conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (hereinafter 'PC&PNDT Act') read with Section 23 and 25 of the Pre-Conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (hereinafter 'PC& PNDT Act').