SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI
Babu Lal Marandi S/o Late Chhotu Marndi – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI, J.
1. Heard Mr. Prashant Pallav, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and Mr. Rajiv Ranjan, learned Advocate General appearing for the respondents-State.
2. In all these writ petitions, common questions of fact and law are involved, that’s why all these petitions have been heard together with the consent of the parties.
3. In all these petitions, prayers are made for quashing of the entire criminal proceedings arising out of Dhurwa P.S. Case No. 107 of 2023, registered under Sections 147, 148, 188, 109, 353, 332, 427 and 323 of the Indian Penal Code, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Ranchi.
4. The said Dhurwa P.S. Case No. 107 of 2023 was registered alleging therein that the political party Bhartiya Janta Party, had organized a protest against the Government of Jharkhand near the Project Bhawan (Government of Jharkhand). The District administration, in order to maintain law and order, had directed deployed additional police force and magistrate in the city of Ranchi. The informant was deployed along near the Dhurwa Gollambar (cross road) on the road leading from Dhurwa Gollambar (cross road) to Prabhat Tara field along with B
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