A friend had a "discussion" with a traffic policeman who was towing away motorcycles instead of bigger vehicles (cars/trucks). He had no stake in it since he was on foot but the traffic policeman got upset with his questioning, specially when he declared that he just started recording the conversation. He's a software engineer by profession and has a clean record so far. He spent seven days in judicial custody already for this charge since it's a non-bailable offence. What are his options right now? should he go to trial where it'll basically be his word against the traffic policeman and 3 of his assistants (who will support him) OR should he try to quash the FIR using 482? The chargesheet hasn't been filed yet, here is a translated version of the fabricated FIR which talks about my friend abusing (MC) and threatening (mera kya ukhad lega) https://image.ibb.co/bH720K/FIR_translate.jpg
For quashing would it help to file it before the chargesheet or if he can influence the IO/complainant to file a 'light' chargesheet would that help in quashing?
