IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 11.12.2025 Rajat Kalsan ...Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Arjun Sheoran and Mr. Tejasvi Sheokand, Advocates, for the petitioner.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

CRM-50332-2025 Allowed, as prayed for and accordingly, the video recording as well as its transcript annexed as Annexure P-7 and P-8 is taken on record and the applicant-petitioner is also exempted from filing certified/ typed/translated/legible/fair copies of Annexures P-7 & P-8. The same are taken on record. Registry is directed to tag the same at an appropriate place.

Main case The instant petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 read with Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for seeking quashing of FIR No.238 dated 29.07.2025 registered under Sections 196(1), 352, 353(1), 353(2), 356(2), 49 and 62 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 at Police Station Narnaund, District Hansi, Haryana alongwith all consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2. Briefly stated, the present proceedings emanate from a complaint submitted by one Sushil Kumar, son of Dharampal, resident of village Budhana, Police Station Narnaund. The complainant stated that his SUMIT SINGmH oGtUhSAeINr, Smt. Krishna Devi, was murdered on 16.11.2024 at the stadium of village Budhana, in respect whereof FIR No. 452 of 2024 was registered at Police Station Narnaund. It was averred that the challan in the said case has already been presented before the competent Court and that further investigation is being conducted by the State Crime Branch. According to the complainant, Anoop son of Sadhu Ram, Anshu son of Suresh Kala, Maya Devi wife of Sadhu Ramand Sadhu Ram son of Tek Ram, residents of village Budhana, are the principal accused and during the course of further investigation, the DNA sample of accused Anoop had matched, thereby scientifically confirming the offence of rape in addition to murder. The complainant further alleged that on 14.07.2025, while accessing Facebook at his residence, he came across a video uploaded on a Facebook profile under the name “Rajat Kalsan”, who projected himself as an Advocate. The said video pertained to a public meeting held in front of the Hisar Mini Secretariat, wherein statements were made containing false, defamatory and derogatory assertions against the complainant and his family. It was alleged that in the said meeting, Maya Devi, one of the accused in the murder and rape case, was given a platform to address the gathering and the crowd was exhorted to extend support to the accused persons. The complainant alleged that the said Rajat Kalsan thereafter addressed the gathering and made statements to the effect that the murder of Krishna Devi had been committed by her own family members on account of a property dispute; that the accused persons had been falsely implicated by villagers of Budhana after collecting money and by bribing senior police officers; that false allegations had been levelled against the accused to exert pressure for compromise in another incident and that the residents of village Budhana were portrayed as casteist goons, despicable and criminals. Moreover, the accused in the murder and rape case were projected as innocent and public support was solicited in their favour. On these assertions, the complainant alleged that Rajat Kalsan had indulged in acts amounting to criminal defamation, interference with the administration of justice, influencing the investigation and the Court, inciting public disorder, maligning the police machinery by portraying it as corrupt and misusing the legal profession by projecting himself as an Advocate while glorifying accused persons involved in heinous offences such as murder and rape. It was further alleged that such conduct had the effect of tarnishing the image of the complainant, the victi