JUDGMENT :

ANIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY, J.

Heard the parties.

2. This Criminal Miscellaneous Petition has been filed invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure with a prayer to quash the entire criminal proceeding in connection with Bistupur P.S. Case No.87 of 2020 corresponding to G.R. No.659 of 2021 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 188, 269, 270 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 54 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and Section 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 in which consequent upon submission of charge-sheet, cognizance has been taken inter alia against the petitioner for having committed the offences punishable under Sections 188, 269, 270 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and Section 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 and the said case is now pending before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jamshedpur.

3. The brief facts of the case is that on 25.04.2020, the informant and others got information that in violation of the restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the petitioner opened his hotel and spa and some persons were partying in the said hotel. After