Advocates:
['GOPAL K VERMA', '', 'VIVEK PATHAK', 'ANJALI BHARGAVA', 'G A', 'PRASHANT KHANNA', 'B S KORANGA']

Reserved Judgment

HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL

Criminal Misc. Application No. 1028 of 2015

Chandan Kumar Soni

......Petitioner

Versus

State of Uttarakhand and others ….Respondents

Mr. Arvind Vashistha, Senior Advocate, assisted by Mr. Gopal K. Verma, Advocate

for the petitioner.

Mr. Siddharth Bisht, Brief Holder for the State.

None is present for respondent nos. 2 and 3.

Per: Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J.

Instant petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal

Procedure, 1973 (for short “the Code”) has been preferred to quash the

proceedings of Criminal Case No. 73 of 2015, State Vs. Chandan

Kumar Soni, under Section 3 (2) of the Sexual Harassment of Women

at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (for

short “the Act”) and Section 509 IPC, pending in the court of Judicial

Magistrate, Dwarahat, District Almora (for short “the case”).

2.

The case has a history behind it, which is as hereunder:-

The petitioner is working as Registrar of the Vipin

Tripathi, Kumaun Institute of Technology, Dwa