Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:35948-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5360 of 2025 Petitioner :- Babita Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Manoj Kumar Awasthi,Anshuman Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. for the State/respondent. 2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 24.05.2025, lodged as F.I.R. No. 0176 of 2025, under Sections 324(4), 352 and 351(3) of B.N.S., 2023 at Police Station-Ashiyana, District Lucknow Central (Commissionerate 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 B.N.S.S., 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 B.N.S.S., 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 Pradeep/- Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench