Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: High Court has quashed the FIR against Zakir Hussain, Councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Kargil who was booked by the police after his “highly objectionable” audio clip mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Army in the wake of the recent face-off between India and China went viral on social media.
While quashing the FIR, Justice Sanjeev Kumar observed, “the offences charged against the petitioner are not made out and, therefore, the registration of FIR, which has culminated into filing of the Final Police Report without previous sanction from the competent authority before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kargil is sheer abuse of the process of law”.
“This court, therefore, finds it a fit case to invoke its inherent powers vested by Section 482 CrPC and quash all the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner including the impugned FIR with regard to the audio clip, which allegedly contains conversation between the petitioner and one Nissar Ahmed Khan”, Justice Kumar said.
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