Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36392-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5465 of 2025 Petitioner :- Gauri Shankar And Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sudhaker Prakash Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Pankaj Bhatia,J. Hon'ble Kshitij Shailendra,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record. 2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 18.05.2025 bearing Case Crime No.0149 of 2025, under Sections 351 (2), 352, 117 (2), 115(2) Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3(2)(va), 3(1)(gha), 3(1) (d) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Police Station- Kotwali Sadar, District- Lakhimpur Kheri. 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. Order Date :- 25.6.2025 Jyotsana (Kshitij Shailendra, J.) (Pankaj Bhatia, J.) Digitally signed by :- JYOTSANA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench