Join WhatsApp

Folow Facebook

Subscribe YouTube

Follow Instagram

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against an advocate who had been booked during the COVID-19 lockdown for allegedly stepping outside his residence without a mask.

Holding that continuing the proceedings would be “oppressive” and an abuse of process, a single-judge Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula quashed the FIR registered at Vasant Kunj (South-West) police station under Section 188 IPC in 2020 for alleged violation of a Section 144 CrPC order mandating face masks in public.

The trial court had earlier dropped the charge under Section 269 IPC after finding “absence of any material indicating that the Petitioner was COVID-positive”.

Also Read: Theatrics over analysis, spectacle over service’:

See Full Page