MANISH GUPTA vs UT OF CHANDIGARH

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 254 CRM-M-42225-2025(O&M) Date of decision: 25.05.2026 Manish Gupta ...Petitioner(s) VERSUS State of U.T. Chandigarh ...Respondent(s) CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Mayank Bajaj, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Prateek Rathee, Addl.PP for U.T. Chandigarh (through V.C). ***** VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for seeking quashing of FIR No.314 dated 11.10.2020 registered under Sections 188, 269, 270, 323, 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Rules 4 & 5 of the Noise Pollution (Regulation & Control) Rules, 2000 at Police Station Sector-39, U.T. Chandigarh along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom. 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner contends that the abovesaid FIR has been registered on the complaint of one Mahabir Singh, wherein he alleged that an information had been received through wireless from PCR that there was noise pollution in House No.2391, Sector 38-C, Chandigarh and that when he, along with his colleagues, reached at the spot, a party was going on an