Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:7958-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 977 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ram Chandra @ Ram Chandra Yadav And 2 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- D.S. Pandey,Firdaus Bano 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 - 19.01.2025, lodged as F.I.R. No.- 0019/2025 for the offences under Sections 74, 115(2), 352 of B.N.S., 2023 and Section 3(2) (va) of the S.C. & S.T. Act, at P.S. - Milarea, District - Raebareli. 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 :- 7.2.2025 Darpan Sharma Digitally signed by :- DARPAN SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench