1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.357 OF 2009 Mohammed Hanif Abdul Hamid Bagban .... Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents Shri M.Y. Sayani for the Petitioner. Shri Rajesh More, APP, for the State. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI & A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATED: SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 P.C: 1. This writ petition is filed seeking quashing of C.R. No.76 of 2008, registered at the Pydhonie Police Station, Mumbai. We are informed that during the pendency of this writ petition, the investigation has been completed and the charge-sheet is already filed. Therefore, the FIR cannot be quashed at this stage. However, the petitioner is at liberty to take recourse to any remedy that may be available to him in law, if he feels aggrieved 2 by the filing of the charge-sheet. 2. The petition further seeks that the adverse report/certificate against the petitioner, forwarded by respondent No.4 to the Head Quarters, Western Naval Command, be set aside. It appears that the petitioner is doing the business of supplying poultry/fresh provision to the Western Naval Command and for obtaining supply orders, he needed a character certificate from the police and the concerned police officer gave his report with the following remark amongst other: "After going through the record of Police Station, enquiry reveals that his connection with anti-social element and political parties cannot be ruled out" The said police officer has placed anti-social elements and political parties at the same plain and at par with each other which means that if it is established that a person has connection with a political party or anti- social element, then such person has a bad- character. This report is neither here nor there. It can be interpreted in any way. The police officer was required to inform the Naval authorities about the character of the 3 petitioner but after reading his opinion, even the Naval authorities must have also got confused. Therefore, we quash the report/certificate given by the said police officer to the Naval authorities in relation to the petitioner. However, the police officer may furnish a fresh report/certificate to the Naval authorities after conducting an inquiry in the matter. With these observations, the petition is disposed of. (BILAL NAZKI, J.) (A.R. JOSHI, J.)