Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:3020-DB Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 351 of 2025 Petitioner :- Abhinav @ Abhinay Yadav And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. (Home) And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Priyanka Yadav,Pradeep Kumar Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Om Prakash Shukla,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. appearing for the State/opposite parties and perused the record. The petitioners seek issuance of direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned F.I.R. dated 26.12.2024 bearing Case Crime/F.I.R. No. 500 of 2024 for the offence under Sections 351(3),352,115(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 & Sections 3(1)(da)/3(1)(Gha) of SC/ST Act registered at Police Station Kotwali Dehat, District Sultanpur. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the offences as alleged in FIR have maximum punishment for the term less than seven years imprisonment, whereas, the police is trying to arrest them, which is against the mandates of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Learned Additional Government Advocate appearing for State/respondents has given a statement on behalf of investigating agency that because the offence allegedly committed by the petitioners, entails sentence of less than seven years, provisions of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 shall be strictly followed in terms of judgment rendered by Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in a case reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273: Arnesh Kumar vs. State of Bihar and another. Considering the stand of the investigating agency, learned counsel for the petitioners states that let this petition be disposed of in view of the above said facts. Accordingly, this petition is disposed of in view of the provisions of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and the law as laid down by Apex Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar (supra). Order Date :- 16.1.2025 Shravan (Om Prakash Shukla,J.) (Vivek Chaudhary,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHRAVAN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench