$~61 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CRL.M.C. 7579/2025, CRL.M.A. 31727/2025 SAJID M S .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Satyakam, Mr. Rizwan Ahmed, Mr. Shaikh Saipan, Mr. Shivam Yadav and Mr. Md. Arif Hussain, Advocates.

versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Hemant Mehla, APP for the State along with SI Ajeet Singh, Kapashera, NA.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV NARULA

O R D E R

% 29.10.2025 CRL.M.A. 31728/2025 (Exemption from filing certified copies)

1. Exemption is granted, subject to all just exceptions.

2. The Applicant shall file legible and clearer copies of exempted documents, compliant with practice rules, before the next date of hearing.

3. Accordingly, the application stands disposed of.

CRL.M.C. 7579/2025

4. The present petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1950 read with Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [1“BNSS”] (formerly Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, [2“Cr.P.C”]) seeks quashing of FIR No. 328/2020 registered under Sections 153/504 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860³, at P.S. Kapashera and all consequential proceedings emanating therefrom.

5. The Petitioner is a doctorate in Social Medicine and Community Health and is presently employed with a hospital in Kerala. Between the years 2015 and 2022, the Petitioner was pursuing studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. During this period, on 6^th July, 2022, the Petitioner posted a tweet on the social media platform “X” (formerly known as “Twitter”). The said tweet was noticed by the Complainant/Respondent No. 2, who found its contents to be offensive and in bad taste, and consequently lodged a complaint with the Station House Officer, Police Station Kapashera. On the basis of the said complaint, the subject FIR came to be registered. Pursuant thereto, the Petitioner received a notice dated 19^th September, 2025, requiring him to join the investigation, after a lapse of nearly five years. Aggrieved, the Petitioner has approached this Court seeking quashing of the said FIR.

6. Issue notice, Mr. Hemant Mehla, APP for the State, accepts notice.

7. Status report be filed before the next date of hearing.

8. Issue notice to Respondent No. 2 by all permissible modes, upon filing of process fee, returnable on the next date of hearing. Upon service, let reply be filed on or before the next date of hearing.

9. Re-notify on 17^th November, 2025.

10. Till the next date of hearing no coercive action shall be taken against the Petitioner.

SANJEEV NARULA, J OCTOBER 29, 2025/MK

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