Post-quashing of FIR, authorities must reconsider and issue NIOC without delay.

JUDGMENT

The writ petition is filed for the following reliefs:

i) Call for the entire records relating to the above case;

ii) Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, direction or order to quash Ex P10 – rejection order passed by the 2^nd respondent as it is wrong, illegal and malafide;

iii) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, direction or order directing the respondents to issue NIOC to the petitioner as he is not involved in any criminal offence and the false implication of petitioner is quashed by Ex P1 judgment;

iv) Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, direction or order commanding the respondents to re-consider the petitioner’s application for issuance of NIOC , considering the fact that his implication in crime no: 377/’19 was quashed by this Hon’ble court by Ex P1 judgment as he is not involved in any criminal case , as of now ;

v) Petitioner also prays that this Hon’ble court may be pleased to dispense with the translation of the documents produced in the vernacular language;

vi) Grand such other and further reliefs which this Hon’ble Court feels just and proper to grant in the circumstances of the above case.

2. The petitioner submits that he has filed Ext.P9 request for a ‘non-involvement in offences certificate’. The same stands rejected by Ext.P10 order on holding condition that the petitioner is involved in Crime No.377/2019. 3. This Court, by Ext.P1 order, has quashed the aforesaid crime as early as on 22.01.2021. The petitioner seeks only a limited relief of reconsidering Ext.P9 request in the light of Ext.P1 order.

Accordingly, Ext.P10 is quashed. There will be direction to the 2^nd respondent to take up Ext.P9 request and pass fresh orders on the same in the light of Ext.P1 order within one week from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment.