Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36015-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5333 of 2025 Petitioner :- Brijendra Bahadur Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home LKO. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Syed Raza Mehdi Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Pankaj Bhatia, J. Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. for the State respondents. 2. The present writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash the impugned First Information Report dated 12.05.2025 registered as Case Crime No. 97 of 2025, under Section 303(2) B.N.S., 2023, Police Station Leelapur, District Pratapgarh and for a direction to the respondents not to arrest the petitioner in pursuance of impugned First Information Report. 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 :- 23.6.2025 Sazia (Kshitij Shailendra, J) (Pankaj Bhatia, J) Digitally signed by :- SAZIA AQUIL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench