OLGA TIMOSHIK Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a petition under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C for quashing of FIR No.40 dated 28.05.2010 registered under Section 14(A) of the Foreigners Act, 1946 and Section 5 of the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939 and Section 3(2)(A) of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 registered at Police Station Nangal, District Roop Nagar, Punjab and all proceedings arising therefrom against the petitioner herein.

(2.) The petitioner-Ms. Olga Timoshik is a professional qualified photo journalist. She is a Russian National and has been very often visiting India. In the year 2010, she visited Jaipur, Rajasthan for the purpose of collection of data relating for the purpose of exhibition "India Siberia 2010" which was supposed to be held up in December 2010 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

(3.) The background of case of the prosecution is evident from the FIR. The same reads as under :-