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2025 DAILYLAW 147220 (ALL)

ANURAG YADAV v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER

CRLA/1875/2025 · 2025-06-27

Pankaj Bhatia

Criminal Appealbody2025

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36735 Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 1875 of 2025 Appellant :- Anurag Yadav Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Another Counsel for Appellant :- Nasreen Bano,Shyam Kinkar Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Pankaj Bhatia,J. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned A.G.A. for the State. The present appeal under Section 14-A(1) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 23.07.2020 passed by learned Special Judge SC/ST Act, Lucknow in Special Trial Application No. 806/2000: Anurag Yadav Vs. State of U.P., arising out of Case Crime No. 432/2019 by which the appellant has been summoned for trial under Sections 147, 323, 504 I.P.C. and Section Considering the nature of allegations levelled, prima facie, no good ground for quashing of the impugned order is made out. After some argument, learned counsel for the appellant confined his prayer to the extent that a positive direction may be given to learned court below that if a bail application is moved before it by the appellant, the same may be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law in light of judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and others : (2022) 10 SCC 51 as the punishment in the above case is less than seven years. Learned A.G.A. has no objection to the prayer made by learned Counsel for the appellant and submit that a positive direction may be issued to the learned court below to consider and decide the bail application, if moved before it by the appellant, expeditiously in accordance with law after hearing the public prosecutor. In view of the submissions made by learned Counsel for the parties, if the appellant appear and surrender before the court below and apply for bail within four weeks from today, the prayer for bail shall be considered and decided expeditiously by the court below in accordance with law after hearing the Public Prosecutor in light of judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil (Supra). With the aforesaid observations, the appeal is finally disposed of. Order Date :- 27.6.2025 Arvind Digitally signed by :- ARVIND KUMAR SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench