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The premised was directed to be closed for visitors. On petitioner&#8217;s failure to comply with the directions, CEO of the Authority filed a complaint with SHO of the police station concerned. An FIR was registered and chargesheet was assailed by the police, based on which cognizance was taken by the Magistrate vide the impugned order. Aggrieved thereby, the petitioner was before the High Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner was represented by Nina R. Nariman with Vrinda Bhandari and Geetika Kapur, Advocates. It was submitted that in terms of Section 195 CrPC, no Court can take cognizance of an offence under Section 188 IPC except on complaint of public servant concerned. It was contended that no complaint satisfying requirements of Section 2(d) CrPC was filed in the present case.\u00a0<em>As per Section 2(d), a &#8220;complaint&#8221; has to be in writing to the Magistrate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Court held that the complaint made by CEO of the Authority was a\u00a0<i>complaint made to SHO which\u00a0could not be treated as a complaint to the\u00a0<\/i><i>Magistrate\u00a0<\/i>so as to satisfy the requirements of Section 195 (1)(a)(i) CrPC. It was observed,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Non-compliance of Section 195 is a defect which cannot be cured\u00a0subsequently as was sought\u00a0to be\u00a0done by the prosecution by filing a\u00a0<\/strong><b>supplementary\u00a0chargesheet or by way of a complaint given by\u00a0the public servant\u00a0after cognizance has been taken.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>Holding that the present proceedings suffered from infraction of Section 195, the Court allowed the petition and quashed the impugned order. 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