IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. MMO No.1017 of 2024 Date of Decision : 29.11.2024 Naresh Kumar …… Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh and another .……Respondents Coram:

The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Bipin Chander Negi, Judge Whether approved for reporting?1 For the petitioner : Mr. Virender Thakur and Ms. Komal Chaudhary, Advocates.

For the respondents : Mr. Manish Thakur, Deputy Advocate General, for respondent No.1/State.

Mr. Pranav Kaushal, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

Bipin Chander Negi, Judge (oral )

Status report stands filed. The same is taken on record. Copy, whereof, has been supplied to learned counsel for the petitioner.

2. By way of instant petition filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, a prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No.51/2021 dated 11.03.2021, under Sections 435, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, registered at Police Station, Joginder Nagar, District Mandi, H.P., as well as consequent proceedings arising therefrom, pending before the learned Trial Court.

Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes

3. The averments contained in the petition, which i