Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:43584-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 6695 of 2025 Petitioner :- Anand Verma Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Saurabh Srivastava,Km.Pratibha Vaish Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. This petition has been filed with the following main prayer :- "A) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari to quash the impugned F.I.R. (ANNEXURE NO.1) which has been lodged in a case crime no.142/25 U/S 3(1) U P Gangster Act & Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 Act P.S. Rajesultanpur, District- Ambedkar Nagar." 3. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the sanctioning authority has granted approval for lodging of the F.I.R. under the Gangster Act without application of mind, as is evident from the gang chart, a true copy of which has been filed as annexure-2 to the petition. 4. This matter had come up earlier, and this Court had found that the gang chart filed along with the writ petition had blank columns in it, where the Recommending Authority and the Sanctioning Authority should have written their opinion. 5. This Court, therefore, had directed learned A.G.A. to seek instructions, and the matter was listed for today as fresh for hearing. 6. Today, learned A.G.A. has produced before this Court a true copy of the actual gang chart, which was approved by the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar, and the Superintendent of Police, Ambedkar Nagar, on 23.06.2025, wherein handwritten opinions of Superintendent of Police and the District Magistrate are available. 7. Instructions are kept on record. 8. The writ petition is dismissed with the cost of Rs. 10,000/-. The petitioner shall deposit the cost in the Registry within three weeks from today. In case of failure to deposit such cost as aforesaid within a period of three weeks, the Senior Registrar of this Court shall issue a Recovery Certificate to the District Magistrate, Ambedkar Nagar, who shall recover the amount as arrears of land revenue from movable and immovable property of the petitioner and deposit the same in this Court within a further period of two months. Order Date :- 29.7.2025 Rahul Digitally signed by :- RAHUL TRIPATHI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench