Sandeep Sharma, J. (Oral)

By way of instant petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C., prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No.467 of 2020, dated 27.12.2020, registered at Police Station Sadar Una, District Una, Himachal Pradesh, under Section 420 and 201 of IPC and Sections 39(1)(a) and 39(2) of the Himachal Pradesh Excise Act (for short, ‘the Act’) along with consequential proceedings pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Court No.3, Una.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the pleadings, as well as other material adduced on record by the respective parties are that FIR sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings came to be lodged at the behest of Sub-Inspector Anita, who alleged that on 27.12..2020, while she was on patrolling duty, she received information that truck bearing No.HP-64-9387, coming from Santoshgarh to Una side, may be carrying huge quantity of liquor without permit and as such, aforesaid truck was stopped for checking and allegedly, 402 fboxes of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (for short, ‘IMFL’), namely ‘Golden Tiger’, were being transported without any permit. Since at the time of intercept