[COVID-19 Lockdown] Plea in SC seeks quashing of "untenable, frivolous" FIRs u/Section 188 IPC against persons for violation of lockdown
"The FIRs are being incessantly filed for trivial offences, which will have to go through their own process, eventually burdening the police, jails and whole criminal justice system", the petition states.
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court against FIRs registeredunder Section 188 of the IPC or for other petty offences against thousands ofpersons for violation of the lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.