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CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court quashed on Thursday the FIR filed against Times Now-Navbharat journalist Bhawana Gupta under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Penal Code.
“In the peculiar facts and circumstances, it is a fit case where the continuation of criminal proceedings shall amount to an abuse of the process of law, and the court invokes its inherent jurisdiction under CrPC Section 482 and quashes the FIR and all subsequent proceedings against the petitioner,” ordered the bench headed by Justice Anoop Chitkara. The television journalist had travelled to Ludhiana to cover an AAP event attended by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in May last year. It was alleged that a car in which she and a cameraperson were travelling hit a woman, injuring her. The FIR had said the journalist uttered “caste-indicative” words against the woman.
“In the peculiar facts and circumstances, it is a fit case where the continuation of criminal proceedings shall amount to an abuse of the process of law, and the court invokes its inherent jurisdiction under CrPC Section 482 and quashes the FIR and all subsequent proceedings against the petitioner,” ordered the bench headed by Justice Anoop Chitkara. The television journalist had travelled to Ludhiana to cover an AAP event attended by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in May last year. It was alleged that a car in which she and a cameraperson were travelling hit a woman, injuring her. The FIR had said the journalist uttered “caste-indicative” words against the woman.
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