JUDGMENT (Oral)

1. The present petition has been instituted under Section 482, Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of FIR No. 243/2022 registered under Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 at P.S. IGI Airport, New Delhi and the proceedings emanating therefrom.

2. Petitioner has claimed that she was residing in Meerut, U.P. and that somewhere in the month of June, 2022, she received a job offer from Pune, Maharashtra. The petitioner accepted the offer and decided to shift to Pune alongwith her family. In this regard, the petitioner has placed on record a Leave and Licence Agreement of a flat at Pune which was taken on rent from June, 2022 onwards as well as a receipt of Mahindra Packers Movers for transport of house hold articles to Pune. The petitioner decided to travel by Air India Flight bearing No.AI-851 on 18.06.2022 and at the time of scanning of her baggage, 8 live rounds and 5 empty cartridges were detected in it, which led to registration of the present FIR.

3. Petitioner claims that she had used one of the empty baggage lying in her matrimonial home and was not aware of the live and empty cartridges lying inside it. The said ammunition, in fact, belonged to her father-in-law, who during his