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By way of this petition, petitioner has prayed for following substantive relief:-

“It is, therefore, respectfully prayed that the present petition may kindly be allowed and the FIR bearing number 11/2019, lodged at Police Station Bhawanagar/Nichar, District Kinnaur, dated 18.02.2019 against the present petitioner and the subsequent proceedings pending before Ld. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kinnaur bearing No. 44/2019 may kindly be quashed and set aside in the interest of justice and fair play.”

2. Brief facts necessary for adjudication of the petition are that the Executive Engineer, National Highway Division, HPPWD, Rampur Bushahr, vide award letter dated 09.02.2018, had awarded the work of widening to two lanes with/without Geometrical Improvement in Km. 322/0 to 329/0 of NH-22 (New NH-05) in the State of Himachal Pradesh.

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Petitioner is Contractor by profession. The work awarded to petitioner was in District Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh.

3. An FIR bearing No. 11, dated 18.02.2019, was registered at Police Station Bhawanagar, District Kinnaur, H.P., on the complaint of some of the residents of Village and Post OfÏce Nichar, District Kinnaur, H.P. It was alleged in the complain