ORDER :

1. The petitioner herein seeks quashment of FIR registered in Crime No.182/2020 at Police Station Koni, Distt.Bilaspur offence punishable under Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (hereinafter called as 'the Act of 1897') punishable under Section 188 of the IPC on the following factual backdrop:

(2.1) That, on 17.8.2020 the petitioner was on his way to Bhopal for second part of the selection process conducted by Indian Army Services, in the meanwhile, he was reported corona positive and thereby he returned from Durg to Bilaspur and he was admitted to Isolation Center at Chitrakot Hostel of Pandit Sunderlal Sharma University, Bilaspur (hereinafter called as “Isolation Center”) on 18.8.2020. It is the case of the petitioner that though he was completely asymptomatic, he was admitted to the Isolation Center which was in the poorest condition with no bedsheets on beds, dirty toilets, unhygienic food and environment, no nets on the windows to prevent insects and mosquitoes and even without power backup and despite having been requested to the authorities to discharge him or to get it admitted in the better isolation center, the authorities did not give any attention and u