Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:5965-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 672 of 2025 Petitioner :- Shivank Tiwari @ Shivang Tiwari Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy./Prin. Deptt. Of Home Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Suyesh Pradhan Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard the 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 16.01.2025 bearing F.I.R. No.14 of 2025, under Section 25(1B) Arms Act, Police Station Kotwali, 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. (Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I, J.) (Sangeeta Chandra, J.) Order Date :- 29.1.2025 cks/- Digitally signed by :- CHANDRA KANT SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench