Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:5607-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 782 of 2025 Petitioner :- Azizur Rahman And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Secy. Home And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Arvind Kumar Tiwari,Prashant Tiwari 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 16.01.2025, lodged as F.I.R./Case Crime No.0020 of 2025 for the offences under Sections 406, 420 I.P.C. at P.S. Kotwali Bhinga, District Shrawasti. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners 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 :- 28.1.2025 Mahesh Digitally signed by :- MAHESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- MAHESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench