Advocates:
['SHREE KANT VERMA', '', 'SWAROOP SINGH', 'ANIL GUPTA', 'Pratap Singh', 'PRITAM JOSHI', 'ANJALI KAUSHIK', 'PP']

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT

JODHPUR

S.B. Criminal Misc(Pet.) No. 3037/2022

Sanjay Kumar S/o Mohan Lal, Aged About 45 Years, W.no. 11,

Sadul Shahar, Sri Ganganagar, Raj.

----Petitioner

Versus

State Of Rajasthan, Through Pp

----Respondent

For Petitioner(s)

:

Mr. Shree Kant Verma

For Respondent(s)

:

Mr. Anees Bhurat, P. P.

JUSTICE DINESH MEHTA

Order

11/10/2022

1.

By way of the instant petition under Section 482 of the Code

of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Code’)

the petitioner has challenged the FIR No.248/2021 registered

against him at Police Station Sadul Shahar, Sri Ganganagar for the

offences under Section 420 of Indian Penal Code; under Sections

3 & 4 of the Rajasthan Public Gambling Ordinance, 1949

(hereinafter referred to as the ‘RPGO’) and Section 66 of

Information & Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 (hereinafter

referred to as the ‘IT Act’).

2.

Mr. Verma, learned counsel for the petitioner after reading

the contents of the FIR, vehemently argued that no offence

punishable under Section 420 of IPC can be said to have been

made out against the petitioner, as there is no allegation of