RANCHI, India, Jan. 14 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on Dec. 15:

1. Heard the parties.

2. This Criminal Miscellaneous Petition has been filed invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 with the prayer to quash the charge-sheet dated 31.07.2024 along with the F.I.R. of Mohanpur P.S. Case No.281 of 2023 in which charge-sheet has been submitted against the petitioner for having committed the offences punishable under Sections 153-B (1) (c), 290, 336, 341, 342, 427, 504, 506, 295 (A), 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The allegation against the petitioner is that the petitioner being the Hon'ble Member of Loksabha from Godda Constituency, accosted the informant and his associates, who were taking the bullocks by the side of the road to Banka in the State of Bihar after purchasing the same, from the Mohanpur Hat situated in the District of Deoghar in the State of Jharkhand and the petitioner called the informant to be a 'Bangadeshi Pashu Tashkar' meaning 'Bangladeshi Animal Smuggler' and drove away the bullocks causing a loss of Rs.2,38,000/- to the informant and handed over the informant to police of Mohanpur Police Station; but the Mohanpur Police Station, after verification of the address of the informant and finding the receipt and after verifying the receipt in respect of the purchase of bullocks, found the same to be true and released the informant.

4. On the basis of the written-report submitted by the informant, police registered Mohanpur P.S. Case No.281 of 2023 and took up the investigation of the case. After completion of the investigation, police submitted charge-sheet against the petitioner for having committed the offences punishable under Sections 153-B (1) (c), 290, 336, 341, 342, 427, 504, 506, 295 (A), 505 (2) of the Indian Penal Code.

5. Learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the allegation against the petitioner is false. It is next submitted that there is absolutely no allegation against the petitioner of making or publishing any material regarding any obligation of any class of persons by reason of their being members of any religious, racial, language or regional group or caste or community as is likely to cause disharmony or feeling of enmity or hatred or ill-will between such members and other persons, hence, the offence punishable under Section 153 B (1) (c) of the Indian Penal Code is not made out against the petitioner.

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/ecourtindiaHC/cases/display_pdf.php?filename=bzPoyUlszYLCUcCpirIpqM6%2BFCl3e%2Bpmv5Pq5fmIpssUU2rzep4yIu0As1zBUe6Z&caseno=Cr.M.P./145/2024&cCode=1&cino=JHHC010018902024&state_code=7&appFlag=)

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