Judgment

Rajnesh Oswal, J.-The present petition has been filed by the petitioner for quashing of FIR bearing No. 74/2018 registered with Police Station Kothibagh, Srinagar on 03.08.2018 under Section 353, 506 RPC on the following grounds:

(a) That the FIR impugned has been registered against the petitioner to punish the petitioner for entering into an argument with respondent No. 2 and then taking to social media and also for approaching His Excellency the Governor of the then State against the erring police official, who harassed and humiliated the petitioner without any fault.

(b) That the alleged occurrence took place on 28.07.2018 but the FIR against the petitioner has been registered on 03.08.2018 and no justification has been given by the concerned Dy. SP in his complaint as to why the FIR has not been lodged on same date and as to why such delay has been crept into the registration of the FIR and as such, it becomes clear that the FIR is the result of afterthought and the FIR, as such, is a result of vengeance and is based on mala fide.

(c) That the petitioner is a gazetted officer working as Dy. Director in the Floriculture Department and there was no occasion or reason ava