Guwahati: The criminal petition filed by Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Srinivas BV seeking quashing of an FIR filed by expelled Assam Congress leader Angkita Dutta in a police station here has been dismissed by the Gauhati High Court.
Rejecting the plea, the High Court observed that “no interference is called for in the FIR in question in exercise of the extraordinary inherent jurisdiction of the court”.
The accused had filed the petition under Section 482 Cr. PC in the High Court for quashing the case filed by Dutta under Sections 509 /294/341/352/354/354A (iv)/506 of the IPC read with Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The Gauhati High Court had, during a hearing in the case last month, asked the Assam Police to submit the case diary of the complaint filed by Dutta, by May 2, 2023.
Noting that there is “no indication” in the case diary that the FIR is politically motivated and based on some false and concocted story, the High Court refused to accept Srinivas’ plea seeking quashing of an FIR accusing him of sexual harassment and outraging of the modesty of an expelled Congress leader.
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“The nature of offences disclosed in the FIR are crimes against the society being basically pertaining to outraging the modesty of women,” the bench of Justice Ajit Borthakur stated.
“As the alleged offences were committed physically and electronically, continuously for about six months at Raipur and Guwahati, immediately preceding the filing of the FIR on April 19, 2023, cannot be said that the FIR was lodged on April 19, 2023, after inordinate delay without explanation,” the court observed before quashing the petitioner’s plea to quash the FIR.
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