HARKESH MANUJA, J.

1. By way of present petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1908, petitioner has prayed for quashing of FIR No.0068 dated 16.06.2020 under Section 188, 269, 270. of IPC, 1860 registered at Police Station Begowal, District Kapurthala and all the consequential proceedings arising therefrom including order dated 11.07.2022 vide which the proceedings under Section 82 Cr.P.C. for declaring the petitioner as Proclaimed person have been initiated.

2. Brief facts of the case as mentioned in the FIR are that when police officials were on a patrolling duty on 16.06.2020 they saw two young men coming without wearing the mask on a motorcycle bearing registration Number PB-57-C-0449. When police officials stopped and asked their names and addresses, they told their names as Gurpreet Singh alias Preet (Driver) and Parminder Singh alias Tinku (present petitioner) as pillion rider. As both young men have allegedly violated the instructions related to Covid-19 pandemic, an FIR was registered against them under Sections 188, 269, 270 IPC 1860.

3. Explaining the brief background of the case, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner and his co-accus