Judgment

Mrs. Manjari Nehru Kaul, J.

Petitioner has invoked the inherent jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No.56 dated 18.04.2021 under Sections 420, 120-B of the IPC and Section 7 of Essential Commodities Act and Section 27 of The Drugs and Cosmetics Act registered at Police Station Sector 17, Chandigarh and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2. Learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner, inter alia, has made the following assertions:-

(i) That the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case in hand as neither was he named in the FIR in question nor was he present during the police raid at Hotel Taj, Sector-17, Chandigarh. He was arraigned as an accused only in his capacity as a Director of M/s Health Biotech Limited, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh (hereinafter referred to as ‘company’).

(ii) That the essential ingredients for attracting the offence of cheating under Section 420 of the IPC are not made out as there was no allegation levelled in the FIR against the petitioner of having delivered any property or having practiced deception upon any person. Merely being in possession of a request letter addressed to the Governme