LALITA DEVI AND 3 OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME SECTT. LKO AND ANOTHER
A482/2483/2025 · 2025-03-21
Manish Kumar
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:16367 Court No. - 14 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 2483 of 2025 Applicant :- Lalita Devi And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Sectt. Lko And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Verma Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.
2. The present application has been filed with a prayer to quash the impugned summoning order dated 10.03.24 issued by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate III Lucknow in criminal case arising out of case crime no. 372/2023 under section 147, 323, 504, 506, 427 and 452 I.P.C. P.S. Mohanlalganj District Lucknow State Vs. Rahul Yadav and others and impugned chargesheet no. 01/2023 dated 14.08.2023 alongwith entire criminal proceeding of the aforesaid case pending before the court below.
3. After arguing the matter at some length, learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that liberty may be given to the applicant to file bail application before the trial court which may be directed to be decided in view of law laid down by Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another, (2022) 10 S.C.R. 351 : (2022) 10 SCC 51 and Musheer Alam vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another, 2025 SCC Online SC 116, and also to prefer a discharge application before the court below and the same may also be directed to be decided expeditiously.
4. Learned A.G.A has no objection to the prayer made by
learned counsel for the applicant.
5. Keeping in view the aforesaid, the present application is
disposed of with liberty as prayed for and with a direction to the court below that if the applicant applies for bail before the court concerned, prayer for bail shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law.
6. Taking note of the facts of the case and also the observations made by the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Satendra Kumar Antil (Supra) and Musheer Alam (Supra), this Court is of the view that it would be appropriate to observe that it is expected from the Police Officer concerned that for a period of 30 days from today or till the applicant applies for bail, whichever is earlier,
they would not take any coercive action against the applicant in the aforesaid case.
Order Date :- 21.3.2025 DiVYa Digitally signed by :- DIVYA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench