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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:56167 Court No. - 52 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 5641 of 2025 Applicant :- Agyaram And 5 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ramesh Chandra Pathak Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Manju Rani Chauhan,J. Heard Mr. Ramesh Chandra Pathak, learned counsel for the applicants, Mr. Mayank Awasthi, learned counsel for the State and perused the record. This application has been filed by the applicants with a prayer to quash the charge sheet dated 17.08.2019 and cognizance/summoning order dated 13.11.2019 as well as Case No.2181 of 2019 (State vs. Agyaram and others), arising out of Case Crime No.105 of 2019, under Sections 147, 323, 35, 452, 506, 504 IPC, Police Station-Kaptanganj, District-Basti, pending before the court of Judicial Magistrate, First, Basti. At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicants gave up his challenge to the entire prayer and confined his prayer requesting to grant some protection to the applicants to surrender before the concerned court below. The aforesaid prayer has been made in Para 3 of the supplementary affidavit in support of this application. The learned counsel for the applicants further stated at the Bar that he is not pressing any other prayer made in this application on merits and prayed that a direction may be issued to the concerned courts below to consider and decide the bail application/surrender application of the applicants expeditiously. Learned A.G.A. for the State submits that in case the applicants are not pressing the relief as sought for by them on merits and want to surrender before the concerned court below, he has no objection in granting protection to them for a short period. In view of the above, considering the aforesaid alternative prayer made by learned counsel for the applicants, it is directed that the applicants shall surrender before the concerned court below within three weeks from today and in case apply for bail, the bail application of the applicants shall be disposed of expeditiously by the courts below, after hearing the victim/informant, in accordance with law. For the period of thee weeks from today or till the surrender application is decided, whichever is earlier, no coercive measure shall be taken against the applicants.
In case the applicant(s) does not comply with the aforesaid directions, the court below shall be free to take such measures for appearance of the applicant(s) as required under the law. With the above observations and directions, this application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is disposed of. Order Date :- 16.4.2025 Jitendra/- Digitally signed by :- JITENDRA KUMAR YADAV High Court of Judicature at Allahabad