O R D E R

This petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in C.C.No.2157 of 2020 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate – I, Coimbatore.

2. On the complaint lodged by the second respondent / defacto complainant, the respondent police had registered FIR in Crime No.654 of 2020 for the offences under Sections 188, 505(1)(b) of IPC and 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 for allegedly disobeying the regulations by causing publications in a news website viz., “SimpliCity” about the protest by medical students and trainee Doctors at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital over lack of food and complaints from the residents of Coimbatore, over pilferage in ration shops during the lockdown. After completion of investigation, the first respondent police had filed a final report and the same has been taken cognizance in C.C.No.2157 of 2020 on the file of the I Judicial Magistrate, Coimbatore.

3. The articles published in the news website “SimpliCity” reads as under:-

The First Article:-

“ No timely and adequate food, allege UG and PG student Doctors at CMCH Hostel” (http://simplicity.in/coimbatore/english/news/64010/ food)-published on 14.04.2020, covered a protest by medical students and tr