Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:25851 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 40533 of 2024 Applicant :- Harish Chandra Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ambreen Masroor,Sadrul Islam Jafri,Sr. Advocate Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri N.I. Jafri, learned Senior counsel assisted by Shri S.I. Jafri, learned counsel for the applicant and Shri Mohd. Amir Ansari, holding brief of Shri S.I. Jafri, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri R.K. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 756 of 2024 (State of U.P. Vs. Shahid @ Munnu and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 198 of 2024, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 342 of I.P.C., Police Station- Kokhraj, District- Kaushambi as well as cognizance/summoning order 8.10.2024, pending in the Court of Special Judge (SC/ST Act), Kaushambi. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have been submitted against him. It is further submitted that the offence is punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. Upon considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the prayer made by learned counsel for the applicant is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicant wants to withdraw the application with liberty to file a regular bail application before the court of competent jurisdiction. In case bail application is filed by the learned counsel for the applicant, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgments rendered by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation & Another, (2022) 10 SCC 51, wherein the Supreme Court considering the category(A) as mentioned in the paragraph no. 2, bail applications of such accused against which charge-sheet has been submitted on appearance may be decided without the accused being taken in physical custody or by granting interim bail till the bail application is decided. It has been observed that at the cost of repetition, we wish to state that, in category A, one would except a better exercise of discretion on the part of the court in favour of the accused. The application stands disposed of with the aforesaid liberty. Order Date :- 24.2.2025 T. Sinha Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad