Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28225 Court No. - 14 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 4041 of 2025 Applicant :- Bal Bhadra Singh Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Anil Kumar Akela,Kiran Rawat,Pushpendra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned AGA for the State as well as perused the record. 2. The present application has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. (now 528 of B.N.S.S.) by the applicant with the following prayer :- "For the facts, reasons and circumstances stated in the accompanying affidavit, it is most respectfully prayed that this Hon'ble Court may graciously be pleased to quash the further proceedings of the Criminal Case No. 12778 of 2015 "State Versus Bal Bhadra" arising out of Case Crime No. 291 of 2012 Under Section 3/7 Essential Commodities Act Police Station- Thakurganj, District-Lucknow pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate 1", Lucknow as well as impugned Non Bailable Warrant (N.B.W.) order dated 13.1.2025, impugned summoning order dated 18.3.2015 and impugned charge sheet dated 16.10.2024 contained in Annexure No. 1,2 & 3 respectively to this affidavit, in the interest of justice. It is further prayed that this Hon'ble Court may graciously be pleased to stay the further proceedings of the Criminal Case No. 12778 of 2015 "State Versus Bal Bhadra" arising out of Case Crime No. 291 of 2012 Under Section 3/7 Essential Commodities Act Police Station-Thakurganj, District-Lucknow pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate 1", Lucknow as well as impugned Non Bailable Warrant (N.B.W.) order dated 13.1.2025 as well as its consequence orders passed/issued by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, 1st, Lucknow contained In Annexure No.1 to the accompanying affidavit, in the interest of justice." 3. After arguing 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 decided in view of law laid down by Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Satendra 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 as also to prefer a discharge application before the court below and the same may be decided expeditiously. 4. Learned AGA has no objection to the prayer made by learned counsel for the applicant. 5. Keeping in view the aforesaid, the present application U/s 482 Cr.P.C. read with Section 528 BNSS 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, his prayer for bail shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law. 6. Liberty is also granted to the applicant to move discharge application before the court below and the same shall be decided expeditiously, in accordance with law, if there is no other legal impediment. 7. Taking note of the facts of the case and also the observations made 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, he would not take any coercive action against the applicants in the aforesaid case. 8. With the aforesaid observations, the present application, is disposed of. Order Date :- 14.5.2025 S. Kumar Digitally signed by :- SANTOSH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench