JUDGMENT

Anoop Chitkara, J. - Aggrieved by the registration of FIR captioned above, the accused has come up before this court under section 482 CrPC for its quashing, submitting that it is a misuse of State criminal machinery for the oblique motive of political gain, and even if all the allegations leveled in the FIR are accepted in the entirety, still they do not prima facie constitute any offence.

2. The context in which the FIR came to be registered was that on 11th March 2022, a Hindi movie, 'The Kashmir Files,' was released. The petitioner claims in paragraph 3 that various State Governments granted Entertainment Tax exemptions to the movie, and when a similar demand of concession was made for Delhi, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi's Chief Minister, in the State's Assembly not only refused to grant any such concession but allegedly also mocked the authenticity of the movie's storyline. It agitated the petitioner and being a spo