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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 22262 of 2025 Court No. - 45 HON'BLE SALIL KUMAR RAI, J.
HON'BLE ZAFEER AHMAD, J. Sri Kesh Mani Dubey, Advocate has filed vakalatnama on behalf of respondent no. 4, which is taken on record. Heard the counsel for the petitioners, the A.G.A. for the State and Sri Kesh Mani Dubey, the counsel for the respondent no. 4. The present petition has been filed challenging the First Information Report dated 09.09.2025 registered as Case Crime No.0420 of 2025, under Section 76, 316(2), 115(2), 351(3), 352 of B.N.S., 2023, Police Station Tronika City, District Grameen (Commissionerate Ghaziabad). We have perused the FIR, which prima facie discloses commission of offence and therefore, the prayer made to quash the FIR cannot be entertained in view of law laid down by Hon'ble Apex Court in the cases of State of Telangana Vs. Habib Abdullah Jellani reported in (2017) 2 SCC 779 and Neeharika Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. Vs. State of Maharashtra and Others reported in (2021) SCC Online SC 315 and as such, we are of the view that no interference is warranted. However, considering the fact that all the offences, complained of in the impugned FIR, are punishable with a term up to seven years, therefore, in case of effecting the arrest of the petitioners in pursuance of the impugned FIR, it is directed that the respondents/ authorities shall ensure that the specific provisions contained in Section 41(1)(b) and Section 41-A of CrPC/Section 35(3) to 35(7) of Bhartiya Nagrika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Alok Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Rashid And Another .....Petitioner(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s)
and the guidelines issued by Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 as well as the directions issued in judgement and order dated 28.01.2021 of this Court passed in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 17732 of 2020 (Vimal Kumar and 3 Others Vs. State of U.P. and 3 Others) reported in 2021 (2) ACR 1147, be strictly complied with. With the aforesaid observations, the instant writ petition stands disposed of. September 26, 2025 Ranjeet Sahu CRLP No. 22262 of 2025 2 (Zafeer Ahmad,J.) (Salil Kumar Rai,J.) Digitally signed by :- RANJEET SAHU High Court of Judicature at Allahabad