Chandigarh, July 3 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a first information (FIR) registered against a Hoshiarpur woman who was booked for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by dressing her pet dog as Lord Krishna and posting the photograph on WhatsApp during Janmashtami in 2024.

Justice Subhas Mehla allowed the woman's petition, quashing the FIR registered at Talwara police station under Section 298 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with the final report filed before the trial court in January this year.

The FIR was lodged on a complaint by a man who identified himself as a Shiv Sena youth leader, alleging that the woman had hurt Hindu religious sentiments by dressing her dog in a yellow cloth and a crown to resembl...