Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36555-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5716 of 2025 Petitioner :- Amar Singh Maurya Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anurag Dwivedi 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 No.253 of 2025, under Section 74, 351(3) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 7/8 of POCSO Act, Police Station - Khamariya, 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 :- 26.6.2025 nishant Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench