Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:45756 Court No. - 14 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 6323 of 2025 Applicant :- Anand Kumar Singh Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home U.P. Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Mohd. Shadab Siddiqui,Shivani Maurya Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. The instant application has been filed with the prayer to quash criminal proceedings in Case No. 1747 of 2024 arising out of Crime No.1253 of 2023 (State of U.P. Vs. Ankit Tripathi & others) under Section 420 I.P.C. and Sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, P.S. Kotwali Nagar, District Barabanki against the applicant. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is not involved in committing the offence and the story narrated in the F.I.R. is concocted and frivolous. He added that the criminal proceedings against the present applicant is nothing but harassment. On the other hand, learned A.G.A. for the State has opposed the contention aforesaid and submits that there is no abuse of process of law and only factual matrix has been agitated before this before this Court and that could not be gone into at this stage, invoking the jurisdiction under Section 482 Cr.P.C. and thus the application is liable to be dismissed. After the argument at length, learned counsel for the applicant submits that interest of justice would be sub-served, if this Court directs the court below to permit the applicant to appear before the court below and file an application of discharge. He further submits that the court below may be directed to decide the discharge application within stipulated period of time, as may be fixed by this Court. Learned AGA for the State has no objection to the aforesaid submission. In view of aforesaid, the applicant is permitted to file an application for discharge before the court below within a period of seven days from today and if such an application is filed, the same shall be decided within a further period of 30 days, strictly in accordance with law. With the aforesaid observation, the application is disposed off. Order Date :- 6.8.2025 Ram Murti Digitally signed by :- RAM MURTI YADAV High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench