IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 17.12.2024 Manmeet Kaur ...Petitioner Versus The State of UT Chandigarh ... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE N.S.SHEKHAWAT Present : Mr. Mayank Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Akashdeep Singh, Spl. P.P., U.T., Chandigarh.

N.S.SHEKHAWAT , J. (Oral)

1. The petitioner has filed the present petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. with a prayer to quash the impugned FIR No. 96 dated 03.12.2021 under Sections 269 IPC and Section 51 of Disaster Management Act, 2005, Police Station Sector 49, Chandigarh (Annexure P-3) and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner is employed as an international civil servant with the United Nations for the last several years and is presently posted in Thailand where she looks after the affairs of United Nations World Food Programme. On 29.11.2021, the petitioner had to travel from Johannesburg (South Africa) to India for her winter holidays and as such she has departed from there on the same day. Due to outbreak of Covid 19 Pandemic, no direct flights to India were available and the petitioner had to c