Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:6862-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 879 of 2025 Petitioner :- Anit Kumar Maurya Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pankaj Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,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 23.05.2024 bearing F.I.R./ Case Crime No.0324 of 2024, under Section 406/420 I.P.C. Police Station Kotwali, District Unnao. 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 :- 31.1.2025 Shubhankar Digitally signed by :- SHUBHANKAR THAKUR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench