GEETA PATHAK v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO. AND 3 OTHERS
CRLP/615/2025 · 2025-01-29
Ajai Kumar Srivastava I, Sangeeta Chandra
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:5916-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 615 of 2025 Petitioner :- Geeta Pathak Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Lalji Prasad Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.
2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 13.01.2025, lodged as F.I.R./Case Crime No.0015 of 2025 for the offences under Sections 316(2), 318(4), 191(2), 131, 352, 351(3) of BNSS, 2023 at P.S. Rampur Mathura, District Sitapur.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner confines his prayer for issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding Section 41A Cr.P.C.) for the reason that the offences mentioned in the impugned First Information Report carry the sentence of upto 7 years of imprisonment.
4. Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with the direction to the police authorities concerned to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding Section 41A Cr.P.C.) and also the directions issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273. Order Date :- 29.1.2025 Mahesh Digitally signed by :- MAHESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench