ORAL JUDGMENT

(PER : NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI, J.)

Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard finally with the consent of the parties.

2. By this application filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applicants seek quashing of the proceeding of Regular Criminal Case No. 248 of 2020 pending before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gondia, registered on the basis of charge-sheet no. 88 of 2020 at Gondia City, Police Station for the offences under Sections 143, 149, 188, 283, 291, 341 and 353 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 135 of Maharashtra Police Act, 1951.

3. In the First Information Report lodged against the applicants it is alleged that on 3rdAugust, 2019 a public meeting i.e. Mahajanadesh Yatra was held at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Gondia which was attended by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of State of Maharashtra. At that time, while Hon'ble Chief Minister was on the way to the venue of the meeting, the convener of General Class Organizing Committee and Save Merit Save Nation Committee, Gondia and its President applicant no.1 and its members other applicants gathered an illegal congregation or formed an unlawful assembly from Jaistambh to Nehru Chowk and stoo