JUDGMENT :

M.A. Chowdhary, J.

1. This petition has been filed under section 561-A J&K Cr.P.C. seeking quashment of the FIR No. 105/2018 dated 28.04.2018 registered at police station Kishtwar, wherein the petitioner-accused person was found involved in the commission of offence punishable under section 504, 505, 506 and 336 RPC.

2. Petitioner/accused pleaded following facts:

(a) that the petitioner is a reputed journalist and associated with Early Times Newspaper, Jammu and Kashmir, as also with Times Now English News Channel and has broken down various stories of national importance. The petitioner earned lot of respect amongst the masses and carved out a special and unique place for himself amongst the journalist fraternity. He constantly highlighting the issues which are relating to masses and also reporting the administrative lapses and police brutalities from time to time due to which he is not in good books of the administration and police officials and they are looking an opportunity to settle the score so that the petitioner could be prevented from reporting anything incriminating against the administration and police officials of the District. The respondent Nos. 2 to 4 are ini