IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA.

Cr.MMO No. 1133 of 2025 Decided on: 07.05.2026 ________________________________________________________

Sh. Rajesh Marwah H ………..Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors.

f….Respondents ________________________________________________________

Coram:

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sandeep Sharma, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting? ¹ ________________________________________________________

For the Petitioner : Mr. Sunny Rawat & Mr. Atul Sahi, Advocates.

For the Respondents : Mr. Rajan Kahol and Mr. Vishal C Panwar, Additional Advocates General with Mr. Ravi Chauhan and Mr. Anish Banshtu, Deputy Advocates General.

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Sandeep Sharma, Judge (oral)

By way of instant petition filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter, ‘BNSS’), prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of complaint No. HFW-HMR(PROS) DRUGS/10-09, registered as Complaint No. 58-1 of 2010 titled as State of Himachal Pradesh (through Drugs Inspector H.Q. Hamirpur) v. Anil Chand and others as well as consequent proceedings pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial