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13. Notwithstanding the directions by the Apex Court in the case of PRIYANKA SRIVASTAVA and its mandate, this Court is flooded with cases of challenge to a direction under Section 156(3) of the Cr.P.C. by the learned magistrate on private complaints being filed without accompanying affidavits. It is such cases, inter alia, that have lead to docket explosion in the trial Court and this Court, as any complaint sans accountability can sometimes be frivolous, frivolous I say, for the reason that complaints are registered to wreck vengeance; giving a civil dispute a colour of crime; intentions which suffer from want of bonafides; to settle personal scores, inter alia. It is therefore, the complainants should become accountable for registration of every crime. Reference being made to the judgment of the Apex Court in the case of KRISHNA LAL CHAWLA V. STATE OF U.P.3, in the circumstances is apposite. The Apex Court observes as follows: