JUDGMENT :

SUVIR SEHGAL J.

1. The hearing of the instant petition has been taken up through video conferencing due to spread of contagion.

2. Through the instant petition filed under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioners have sought quashing of FIR No. 94 dated 01.05.2020 lodged for offence under Sections 353, 186, 332, 506, 188, 270, IPC and Section 51 of Disaster Management Act, 2005 registered at Police Station Maur, District Bathinda, Annexure P-1, Police Report dated 26.05.2020, Annexure P-3 and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

3. Facts, in brief, are that the impugned FIR has been registered on the complaint of Lady Constable Lovepreet Kaur on the allegation that at about 7 p.m. on 01.05.2020, when she, alongwith Constable Lovedeep Singh and Constable Sandeep Singh, were patrolling the area of Tej Ram Street, they found that the accused-petitioners were sitting in a cosmetics and grocery shop, which was open in violation of the curfew restrictions imposed due to the outbreak of corona virus. On being asked to close the shop, one of the petitioners started cursing the complainant, both the accused obstructed them in the performance of