ORDER :

1. Rule. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor waives service on behalf of the respondents. With the consent of learned advocates on both the sides, the matter is taken up for final hearing today.

1.1 This petition has been preferred under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 seeking to quash and set aside the indictment of the offence under section 395 of IPC in the first information report being C.R. No. I-74 of 2019 registered with Chhapi Police Station, District Banaskantha for the offences under sections 143, 147, 149, 308, 152, 153, 120B, 336, 353, 427, 506(2), 341 and 395 of IPC and section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Properties Act, 1984.

2. The facts in brief are as under:

A meeting was proposed to be organized in Chappi on 19.12.2019 to commemorate the death anniversary of freedom fighters-Ashfaqullah Khan and Ram Prasad Bismil. It appears that along with the commemoration meeting, a protest meeting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 was also scheduled. In that connection, the petitioner, along with original accused no. 1, had made an application dated 17.12.2019 to the authority concerned seeking permission for organizing such meeti