Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36619-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5575 of 2025 Petitioner :- Satyam Pandey Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Shailesh Sachan,Deepak Kumar Pandey,Gaurav Singh,Sachin Kumar 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 18.11.2024 bearing FIR No.0298 of 2024, under Section 303(2) of BNS, Police Station - Baldirai, District Sultanpur. 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 :- 26.6.2025 akverma Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench