have done the same, for which there is a stereotyped excuse, and are in the habit of filing complaint cases against each other. In such background, it is highly improbable that the petitioner, along with his wife and two others, would go to the house of the complainant with whom there was already a long tradition of enmity and litigation and commit assault and also abuse the complainant and take away money and other articles, which clearly they could not have expected to get away with. Moreover, though the Hon'ble Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the power under Section 482 of the Code should be sparingly used, but once the Court is convinced that the criminal proceeding would be an abuse of the process of the Court, for the purpose of securing the ends of justice, the inherent power of the Court is required to be exercised. At this stage, the Court considered it relevant to refer to the recent judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court dated 2nd November, 2018, in the case of Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association v. State of Himachal Pradesh reported as 2018 SCC OnLine SC 2419 , in which at paragraph no. 49, the following has been held:
