Nagraj V. vs UT of J&K through P/S Anantnag

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2025 Supreme(J&K) 37

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR
VINOD CHATTERJI KOUL, J
Nagraj V. – Appellant
Versus
UT of J&K through P/S Anantnag – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr Aatir Kawoosa, Advocate & Mr. Daya Reddy, Advocate
For the Respondent:Mr Mohsin Qadri, Sr.AAG Mr Syed Musaib, Dy.AG Mr S. R. Hussain, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

1. Quashment of Charge-Sheet titled as UT of J&K v. Nagraj V. and others, pending before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Anantnag, as well as FIR no.77/2024 registered in police station Anantnag under Section 420 IPC is sought in the instant petition preferred under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) of 2023.

2. The case set up by petitioner is that he is a Member of Bhartiya Janta Party and is also an entrepreneur. He had contested Assembly Election in the State of Tamil Nadu in the year 2016 on the ticket of said party. It is also the case of petitioner that respondent No. 2 is a Government Official and is serving as a Major in Army and is posted in Khanabal area of District Anantnag. It is also stated by petitioner that respondent No.2 approached petitioner through his friend, who happens to be a Parliament Director, in the first week of August 2023 in New Delhi and subsequently kept on insisting the petitioner to visit Kashmir as respondent no.2 was posted in Anantnag. Petitioner came to Kashmir and since Amarnath Yatra was going on, he performed Holy Amarnath Yatra. Respondent No. 2 i