{"id":236216,"date":"2020-09-24T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=236216"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T07:41:08","slug":"utt-hc-activity-promoting-mutual-hate-and-tension-based-on-religion-race-caste-community-or-language-can-never-result-in-fair-elections-court-dismisses-application-to-quash-charge-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/09\/24\/utt-hc-activity-promoting-mutual-hate-and-tension-based-on-religion-race-caste-community-or-language-can-never-result-in-fair-elections-court-dismisses-application-to-quash-charge-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Utt HC | Activity promoting mutual hate and tension based on religion, race, caste, community or language can never result in fair elections; Court dismisses application to quash Charge-Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Uttaranchal High Court:<\/strong> Alok Kumar Verma, J., dismissed an application which was filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to quash the Charge Sheet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand were held in the year, 2012. The applicant had contested the said election as a candidate of the Indian National Congress Party. While contesting the said election, the present applicant had printed a picture (photo) of Lord Badrinath in his handbills as well as pamphlets. On account of this illegal act on the part of the applicant to influence the voters and used the religious feelings of local people, an FIR was lodged against the applicant under Section 125 of the Act, 1951 and Section 153A of the Penal Code, 1860. After the submission of charge sheet when the Chief Judicial Magistrate took cognizance under Section 171-F of the Penal Code read with Section 123 (3) of the Act, 1951 against the present applicant and passed the summoning order, being aggrieved by which the applicant had filed a revision which was allowed by the Sessions Judge and in pursuance to the revisional order the Chief Judicial Magistrate took the cognizance in the offence punishable under Section 125 of the Act, 1951 and issued summons to the present applicant. The counsel for the applicant, Pankaj Purohit contended that the applicant was already a popular candidate and was well known in the constituency, he was given the charge of \u201cYouth Welfare and Sports\u201d portfolio in the Government; he completed his tenure of five years as a Cabinet Minister in the Government. He further contended that from the bare perusal of the FIR, it was evidently clear that no offence is made out as defined under Section 125 of the Act, 1951; by mere printing of pamphlets with the picture of Shri Badrinath Temple, no offence under Section 125 of the Act, 1951 was constituted; during the investigation, no evidence was collected by the Investigating Officer which would infer the promotion of religious enmity or hatred between two communities on account of the fact of printing of the pamphlets, containing the photo of Lord Badrinath Temple. The counsel for the State, S.S. Adhikari assisted by P.S. Uniyal on the contrary contended that Investigating Officer had found credible evidence against the applicant for his involvement in commission of the crime; there was a specific case against the applicant for his involvement in commission of the crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court while dismissing the application set aside the prayers of quashing the charge-sheet and explained that \u201c<em>it was fundamental duty of every citizen to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood and fraternity amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities. For fair and peaceful election, during the election campaign, party or candidate should not indulge in any activity which may create mutual hatred or cause tension between different classes of the citizens of India on ground of religion, race, caste, community or language.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court further held that the applicant was not able to show at this stage that allegations are so absurd and inherently improbable on the basis of which no prudent person can ever reach a just conclusion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding against the applicant.[Rajendra Singh Bhandari v. State of Uttarakhand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/1dsZp5EL\">2020 SCC OnLine Utt 551<\/a>, decided on 21-09-2020]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Suchita Shukla, Editorial Assistant has put this story together<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttaranchal High Court: Alok Kumar Verma, J., dismissed an application which was filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3612,32922,14051,43565,13021],"class_list":["post-236216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-charge_sheet","tag-chief-judicial-magistrate","tag-elections","tag-mutual-hate","tag-section-482-crpc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Utt HC | Activity promoting mutual hate and tension based on religion, race, caste, community or language can never result in fair elections; 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