AJOY KUMAR MUKHERJEE
Syed Ruhul Amin – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, J. - Present application has been preferred under section 482 of the code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of the charge-sheet being Charge sheet no. 212 of 2018 dated 31.10.2018 under Sections 147/149/153/153A/153B/186/188/120B of the Indian Penal Code along with section 7 of West Bengal animal slaughter control Act, 1950 arising out of Narayangarh Police Station case no. 7 of 2015 dated 07.01.2015 pending before the court of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate at Paschim Medinipur including the order dated 6th December, 2018, passed in connection therewith.
2. On January 7, 2015, a suo moto First information Report was lodged by officer-in-charge of Narayangarh Police Station against as many as thirteen accused persons including present petitioner, inter alia on the allegations that the accused person without any legal permission conducted a 'Jalsa' programme at village Gama where they have slotted three cows in order to provoke persons of other religion and distributed it amongst 1200 visitors of 'Jalsa' programme. It is further alleged that in order to conduct said 'Jalsa' petitioner and others distributed leaflet in order to flare up communal t
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