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This Court finds that no plausible or rational explanation has been offered for this blatant exercise in "forum shopping." Such a deliberate selection of a distant jurisdiction is a classic hallmark of a "controlled" prosecution, designed to cause maximum procedural harassment to the federal officers.

b. While a one-day delay in lodging an FIR is not always fatal, it assumes a sinister character when viewed in the context of an alleged "threat to life" and "forgery" involving high- ranking federal investigators. A person truly in "perpetual fear" for his nine-month-old infant would, in the natural course of human conduct, seek immediate redress at the nearest available precinct. Instead, the complainant waited twenty-four hours to produce a "legally perfected and precisely drafted" document. The sophisticated use of penal nomenclature and the meticulous structuring of the narrative suggest that the complaint was not a spontaneous outburst of a victim, but a "calculated afterthought" engineered with legal assistance to fit specific criminal categories. c. Perhaps most significantly, the FIR was lodged as an immediate reaction to the complainant being summoned and examined in a highly sensitive, court-monitored, multi-crore 53 CRR 2164 of 2022 political scam. The initial inclusion and subsequent deletion of the Prevention of Corruption Act reveals an over- exuberant intent to characterize the Investigating Officer's routine interrogation as a "non-bailable" criminal enterprise. This sequence of events leaves no doubt in the mind of this Court that the FIR was intended to act as a "Litigation Shield," aimed at decapitating the federal probe by criminalizing its lead investigators.