JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Ms. Pragya Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A. for the State. None appeared for the informant despite sufficient service.

2. The instant petition has been filed for quashing the First Information Report (here-in-after referred as FIR) dated 31.01.2021 in Case Crime No. 27 of 2021, under Section 153-B and 505 (2) of Indian Penal Code (here-in-after referred as IPC), registered at Police Station Civil Lines, District-Rampur alongwith consequential reliefs.

3. Petitioner no. 1 is the founding editor of online news publication ‘The Wire’ and the petitioner no. 2 is the reporter of the said online news publication. The farmers were protesting against three farmer laws enacted in 2020. As a mark of protest they marched in Delhi on 26.01.2021 and in an incident near ‘ITO’ New Delhi, a young man named Navreet Singh Dibdiba hailing from district Rampur, U.P. suffered serious injuries and succumbed to death. The State version is that death was caused due to an accident involving his tractor whereas some of the eye witnesses and the victims prim