JUDGMENT

Sreenivas Harish Kumar, J. - This is a petition under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter referred to as 'the Code'), the petitioner has sought quashing of the order dated 19.3.2019 in PCR No. 3743/2019 on the file of VIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru, as also the FIR registered as Crime No. 35/2019 by the first respondent police and the charge sheet filed pursuant to it.

2. Briefly stated, the events that led the petitioner to approach this court are as follows :-

On 11.3.2019, the Joint Secretary of the Association called Grama Seva Sangha, Thyagaraja Nagar, Bengaluru, made an application to the Commissioner of Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (for short hereinafter referred to as 'BBMP') seeking permission to organize a peaceful protest meet at Mahatma Gandhi Circle, M.G.Road, Bengaluru, at about 4.30 PM on 12.3.2019. The Assistant Commissioner (Elections) of BBMP made an endorsement on the said application stating that permission to hold protest meet was not necessary as it was not a political programme. It appears that the said demonstration was held and thereafter, at about 19.30 hours on 12.3.2019, one D.Murthy, Assist