IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE B. P. SHARMA

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ON THE 24 OF FEBRUARY, 2026 MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 18009 of 2019 DHIRENDRA DUBEY AND OTHERS Versus UNION OF INDIA Appearance:

Shri Siddharth Gulatee, Sr. Advocate alonwith Shri Shubhankar Basnet and Mrs.Tulika Gulatee - Advocates for the petitioners.

Shi Sunil Jain, A.S.G alonwith Shri Arnav Tiwari - Advocate for respondent.

ORDER By way of the present petition filed under Section 528 of the BNSS

2023 (Sec.482 of the Cr.P.C), the petitioners seek quashment of Criminal Complaint No.11041/2018, pending before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, for the offence under Sec.17(1)(c) and 18(1)(c) of the Insecticides Act, 1968 and Rule 1971.

2. Brief facts are that a complaint has been filed, against the petitioners, before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, by Shri C.S.Naik, who is working as Plant Protection Officer (Entomology), in the Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Faridabad, and is notified Insecticide Inspector under Section 20 of the Insecticides Act, 19