IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA
SANDEEP SHARMA
Dalip Singh Thakur – Appellant
Versus
State of H.P. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Sandeep Sharma, J.
Through, instant petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C, prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No.306 of 2016, dated 12.12.2016, under Sections 467, 468, 471, 201, 120-B of IPC and Section 196 of Motor Vehicles Act, registered at police Station, Sadar, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh as well as consequent proceedings, if any, pending adjudication in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mandi, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh in Cr. Case No.357 of 2017, qua the petitioner.
2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the pleadings adduced on record by the respective parties, are that on 12.12.2016, ASI Ram Lal, In-charge of CI-cum- Narcotic Cell, received information from the intelligence source that a red-brown tipper bearing registration No. HP-62-3727 appears to be stolen, as its Chassis number had allegedly been tampered with and was fake. After having received aforesaid information, police official, named hereinabove, visited the spot and found the afore tipper bearing registration No. HP-62-3727 parked on the roadside. The person sitting inside the tipper identified himself as Rahul @ Neelmani son of
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