IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE ALOK MAHRA Criminal Misc. Application No.414 of 2008 Dr. Rajesh Kumar Gupta. ...Applicant Versus State of Uttarakhand and another. ...Respondents ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Presence:-

Mr. Aditya Singh, Advocate for the applicant.

Mr. Deepak Bisht, Deputy Advocate General along with Mr. Prabhat Kandpal, learned Brief Holder for the State of Uttarakhand.

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Judgment reserved on: 03.07.2025 Judgment delivered on: 12.08.2025

JUDGMENT

The present application under Section

482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred by the applicant, seeking quashing of entire proceedings of S.S.T. No. 26 of 2004, arising out of Case Crime No. 303 of 2004, registered under Sections 224& 420 of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 8 read with Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and Section 4 read with Section 7 of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, (for short‘Drugs and Magic Remedies Act’), registered at Police Station Rishikesh, District Dehradun.

2. Facts, giving rise to the presen