J&K&L High Court Quashes Case Against Man Booked For Participating In Protest During COVID, Says Officers Intended To 'Harrass' Accused

The Jammu & Kashmir High Court quashed criminal proceedings against three persons who were booked during the COVID-19 pandemic for allegedly violating prohibitory orders, holding that the case appeared to have been registered frivolously to harass them.A bench of Justice M.A. Chowdhary observed that the FIR under Sections 188/34 IPC and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act appeared to...