Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:5709-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 729 of 2025 Petitioner :- Surendra Kumar And Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sanat Singh,Sudhir Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. (1) Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record. (2) Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 11.12.2024 lodged at F.I.R./ Case Crime No.0851 of 2024, under Sections 406, 420 of the I.P.C., at P.S. Dewa, District Barabanki. (3) Learned counsel for the petitioners confines his prayer for issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate of 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 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 :- 28.1.2025 N.PAL Digitally signed by :- NARESH PAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench