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2025 DAILYLAW 135507 (ALL)

RAKESH GUPTA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER

A482/3392/2025 · 2025-04-22

Alok Mathur

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:22762 Court No. - 12 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 3392 of 2025 Applicant :- Rakesh Gupta Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Anil Kumar Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA on behalf of the State. 2. The present application U/S 482 Cr.P.C. (Now U/S 528 of BNSS Act, 2023) has been filed for quashing the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No.972/2020 (Santosh Kumar Gupta vs. Rakesh Gupta), Police Station - Kotwali Nagar, District - Ayodhya, as well as impugned summoning order dated 18.09.2020. 3. Learned counsel for applicant, after arguing the matter at some length, submits that grievance of applicant shall be substantially redressed in case applicant is granted liberty to file a bail application before the Court concerned, which may be decided in view of law laid down by Supreme Court in "Satender Kumar Antil versus Central Bureau of Investigation and another, Special Leave to Appeal (Cri)No.5191 of 2021". 4. Learned A.G.A. has no objection in case suitable directions are issued to the Court concerned to consider and decide the applicant's application for bail in view of the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil (supra). 5. In view of the above, prayer for quashing the impugned proceeding is refused. So far as other prayer is concerned, it is provided that in case the applicant appears before the trial Court within two weeks from today and applies for bail, the same shall be decided expeditiously, in view of the law laid down by Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil's case (supra). 6. The application is accordingly disposed of. [Alok Mathur,J.] Order Date :- 22.4.2025 KR Digitally signed by :- RABINDRA KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench