Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:36353-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5670 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ishita Mishra And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ashok Kumar Bajpai,Abhishek Kumar,Belal Ahmad,Chandra Prakash Tripathi,Harshita Dwivedi,Kadambani Lal,Satyendra Kumar 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-respondents and perused the record. 2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 13.06.2025 bearing FIR No.0415 of 2025, under Sections 3(5), 85, 316(2), 74, 115(2), 351(3) of BNS 2023 and Sections 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Police Station Kotwali City, District Hardoi. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners 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 Sazia (Kshitij Shailendra, J) (Pankaj Bhatia, J) Digitally signed by :- SAZIA AQUIL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench