SANJAY DHAR
Ravi Bhakhri – Appellant
Versus
State of J&K – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Sanjay Dhar, J.
The petitioner has challenged chare-sheet for offences under Sections 427, 448, 504 and 506 RPC filed by the Police Station, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu against him, which is stated to be pending before the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class (3rd Additional Munsiff) Jammu. The charge-sheet has emanated from FIR No. 03/2017 of Police Station, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
2. Before coming to the contentions raised in the petition, it would be apt to narrate the facts, leading to filing of the impugned charge-sheet. On 15.12.2016, respondent No. 2/complainant presented an application under Section 156(3) before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jammu, alleging therein that he is a tenant of the property situated at 145 A/D, Green Belt Park, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu belonging to the petitioner. It was averred in the application that respondent No. 2 was running a restaurant in the demised premises under the name and style of Chanakaya’s Ethnic Vegetarian Food restaurant, but the petitioner and his son started abusing and threatening to forcibly evict him from the demised premises. It was also averred that in the morning of 14.12.2016, when respondent No. 2/complainant wen
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