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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:41832 Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 34666 of 2024 Applicant :- Rajendra Prajapati Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rajendra Rai Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. for the State.
2. This application under section 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred to quash the impugned charge-sheet dated 07.09.2013, summoning/cognizance order dated 05.10.2015, non-bailable warrant dated 09.08.2024 and the entire proceedings of Case No. 1385 of 2015 (State vs. Brajesh Pathak and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 237 of 2013, under sections 147, 149, 341, 353 I.P.C. and section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act, P.S. Chopan, District-Sonbhadra, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sonbhadra as well as to stay the further proceedings of abovementioned case.
3. At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicant submitted that he is not pressing the application on merits and confined his prayer only to the extent that the present application may be disposed of finally with a direction to the court concerned that in case applicant surrenders before it and apply for bail, his bail application may be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law, including the law laid down in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825) to which
learned counsel for the respondents have no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application under section 482 Cr.P.C. is finally disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicant surrenders before the court concerned within a period of one month from today and apply for bail, his bail applications shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law.
5. However, it is made clear that till one month from today, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant herein.
Order Date :- 21.3.2025 #Vik/- Digitally signed by :- VIKRAM GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad