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2025 DAILYLAW 103073 (ALL)

SUNNY AND 3 OTHERS v. State of U.P. AND ANOTHER

A482/33953/2024 · 2025-02-14

Sanjay Kumar Pachori

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:21628 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 33953 of 2024 Applicant :- Sunny And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rakesh Kumar Verma Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. 1. Heard Sri Anil Kumar Srivastava, Advocate holding brier of Sri Rakesh Kumar Verma, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri V.N. Upadhyay, learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 16471 of 2023 (State Vs. Sunny Kumar and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 76 of 2022, under Section 323, 504 of I.P.C., Police Station Rakabganj, District Agra, as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 21.3.2023, pending in the court of C.J.M., Agra. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the offence punishable under Sections 323, 504 of I.P.C. is non-cognizable offence as per provision of Section 2(d) of Cr.P.C. the case could not be a State case and it has been proceeded as a State case, the cognizance/ summoning order is an abuse of the process of law. 4. Section 2(d) of Cr.P.C. is reproduced herein below: "2-d. complaint" means any allegation made orally or in writing to a Magistrate, with a view to his taking action under this Code, that some person, whether known or unknown, has committed an offence, but does not include a police report. Explanation.-A report made by a police officer in a case which discloses, after investigation, the commission of a non-cognizable offence shall be deemed to be a complainant, and the police officer by whom such report is made shall be deemed to be the complainant;" 5. A bare perusal of explanation added to Section 2(d) shows that this explanation speaks about cases where police has investigated a cognizable case but investigation made discloses a non-cognizable offence. 6. In view of what has been stated above, the present application is disposed of. The order impugned dated 21.3.2023 passed by C.J.M., Agra, is, hereby, quashed. The matter is remanded back to the Court concerned and the Magistrate is directed to pass a fresh order after applying the judicial mind. Order Date :- 14.2.2025 A.P. Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANAND PRAKASH PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ANAND PRAKASH PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad