If the application for anticipatory bail has been rejected by the high court, then you can approach the Supreme Court for grant of the same by filing SLP before it. If the Supreme Court is convinced about the falsity of the FIR or otherwise convinced that it is a fit case to be granted anticipatory bail, it may order the same.
If you are so advised, you can try to file a petition before the high court for quashing of the FIR, if no case is made out against you or your family members. However, generally, the chances of getting the FIR quashed at the preliminary stage are less. But, it depends on the facts of each case.
Removal of the names of some specific accused persons from the FIR can also be possible by filing a petition before the high court for quashing the FIR qua those accused persons. But, as I mentioned above, generally such petitions do not succeed.
Yet another method would be to provide the relevant evidence to the police officer investigating the case to prove innocence of the accused persons concerned or to show the falsehood of the FIR. If the investigating officer is convinced, he can file closure report in the case or drop the names of those accused persons from the charge sheet against whom there is no evidence to file charge sheet.
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