Advocates:
['M/S ZAFFAR LAW', 'ASIF MAQBOOL', '', 'T M SHAMSI ASGI']

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

CRMC No. 305/2015

Reserved on: 13.08.2021

Pronounced on: 17.09.2021

Tenzin Dorjee

…..Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. Z. A. Shah, Sr. Advocate with

Mr. A. Hanan, Advocate

V/s

State of J&K through SHO P/S Leh, Ladakh

….. Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. T. M. Shamsi, ASGI

CORAM:

HON9BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD CHATTERJI KOUL, JUDGE

JUDGEMENT

1.

The petitioner seeks indulgence of this Court under Section 561-A Cr.PC,

to quash the criminal proceedings in case titled State v. Tenzin Dorjee

and Ors., pending before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Leh, (for

brevity <Trial Court=) in case FIR No. 11/2009, registered against him at

Police Station, Leh, for the commission of offences punishable under

Sections 15, 16/46, 39-A of J&K Forest Act, Sections 3/7/55 of

Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (for short <Act of 2002=) and Sections 60,

60-A of J&K Wild Life (Protection) Act (for short <WLPA=).

2.

The allegations are that