RANA SIDDIQUI AND OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. ADDL. CHIEF SECY. DEPTT. OF HOME LKO. AND OTHERS
CRLP/5346/2025 · 2025-06-20
Attau Rahman Masoodi, Subhash Vidyarthi
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:35942-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5346 of 2025 Petitioner :- Rana Siddiqui And Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pradeep Kumar Tripathi,Akhilesh Singh Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.
2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report bearing F.I.R. No.0200 of 2025, under Sections 379, 384, 506 I.P.C., Police Station P.G.I., District Lucknow.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner 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. (Subhash Vidyarthi, J) (Attau Rahman Masoodi, J) Order Date :- 20.6.2025 A.Dewal Digitally signed by :- ASHISH DEWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- ASHISH DEWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench