Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36393-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5638 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ram Chandar And 2 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Akhilesh Kumar Pandey,Rashmi Pandey,Swadha Gupta 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 01.06.2025 bearing Case Crime No.0109 of 2025, under Sections 326(e), 351(3) BNS, Police Station Khandasa, District Ayodhya. 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 VNP/- [Kshitij Shailendra,J.] [Pankaj Bhatia,J.] Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench