JUDGMENT

Anoop Chitkara, J. - Aggrieved on being arraigned as an accused in the FIR captioned above, the petitioner has come up before this court under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [CrPC], by invoking this court's inherent jurisdiction, seeking to disrupt the criminal proceedings at the inception stage to preserve his fundamental right of free speech, to prevent the abuse of process of law, and to secure the ends of justice, on the grounds that even if all the allegations on their face value are taken to be true and correct, still it would not constitute violation of any of the penal offences incorporated against him; thus, prays to quash the FIR.

2. The trouble sprouted on Feb. 16, 2022, when as per the complaint, the petitioner, during Vidhan Sabha elections, gave a video interview, leveling imputations about the