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2025 DAILYLAW 108856 (ALL)

SMT. SUGRA BEGUM AND 2 OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER

A482/40669/2024 · 2025-05-22

Deepak Verma

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:87739 Court No. - 84 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 40669 of 2024 Applicant :- Smt. Sugra Begum And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rohit Sharan Tomar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Deepak Verma,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The present application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed with prayer to quash the entire proceeding as well as impugned charge sheet no.10/2024 dated 08.01.2024 and cognizance/summoning order dated 18.09.2024 under sections 420 & 406 I.P.C. passed by Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur in Case No.5569 of 2024 (State Vs. Mohd. Furkan & 2 others), arising out of Case Crime No.549 of 2023, under sections 420 & 406 I.P.C., Police Station-Tanda, District Rampur. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. On perusal of F.I.R., no offence under the alleged Section is made out. Learned court below has passed the cognizance order/summoning order without application of judicial mind. It is next submitted that proceedings under Sections 420 and 406 I.P.C. cannot run jointly in view of the judgment of Apex Court in Delhi Race Club (1940) Ltd. vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr., 2024 SCC OnLine SC 2248, the Apex Court has held in para 42 and 43, which are quoted herein below: "42. When dealing with a private complaint, the law enjoins upon the magistrate a duty to meticulously examine the contents of the complaint so as to determine whether the offence of cheating or criminal breach of trust as the case may be is made out from the averments made in the complaint. The magistrate must carefully apply its mind to ascertain whether the allegations, as stated, genuinely constitute these specific offences. In contrast, when a case arises from a FIR, this responsibility is of the police ? to thoroughly ascertain whether the allegations levelled by the informant indeed falls under the category of cheating or criminal breach of trust. Unfortunately, it has become a common practice for the police officers to routinely and mechanically proceed to register an FIR for both the offences i.e. criminal breach of trust and cheating on a mere allegation of some dishonesty or fraud, without any proper application of mind. 43. It is high time that the police officers across the country are imparted proper training in law so as to understand the fine distinction between the offence of cheating viz-a-viz criminal breach of trust. Both offences are independent and distinct. The two offences cannot coexist simultaneously in the same set of facts. They are antithetical to each other. The two provisions of the IPC (now BNS, 2023) are not twins that they cannot survive without each other." 4. Considering the argument raised by applicants' counsel and in view of judgment passed by Hon'ble The Apex Court in the case of Delhi Race Club (1940) Ltd., summoning order dated 18.09.2024 passed by learned Magistrate is without application of judicial mind. 5. Accordingly, the impugned summoning order dated 18.09.2024, passed by Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur in Case No.5569 of 2024 (State Vs. Mohd. Furkan & 2 others), arising out of Case Crime No.549 of 2023, under sections 420 406 I.P.C., Police Station-Tanda, District Rampur, is hereby quashed. 6. The matter is remanded back to learned Magistrate with direction that learned Magistrate shall pass an appropriate order within a month from the date of production of certified copy of this order keeping in view the order of Hon'ble The Apex Court passed in the case of Delhi Race Club (1940) Ltd. vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. 7. With aforesaid direction, the present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is accordingly allowed. Order Date :- 23.5.2025 Nitin Verma Digitally signed by :- NITIN KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad