MUNEEB AKHTAR (IN FIR MUNEEB AHMAD) AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. ITS SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO. AND ANOTHER
A482/6379/2025 · 2025-08-07
Shree Prakash Singh
body2025
DailyLaw.ai
[ 2025 DAILYLAW 156050 (ALL) · dailylaw.ai ]
DailyLaw.ai
[ 2025 DAILYLAW 156050 (ALL) · dailylaw.ai ]
Judgment text
Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.
Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:46061 Court No. - 14 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 6379 of 2025 Applicant :- Muneeb Akhtar (In Fir Muneeb Ahmad) And Another Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And Another Counsel for Applicant :- Anamika Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned AGA for the State and perused the record. Instant application under section 482 Cr.P.C./now section 528 of the B.N.S.S.,2023, has been filed with the prayer to quash and set aside the impugned chargesheet dated 12-07-2024 and the impugned summoning/cognizance order dated 19- 10-2024
alongwith
other
consequential proceedings in "State Vs. Muneeb Ahmad and Others", arising out of FIR No. 95/2023, under sections 147, 148, 149, 323, 504, 506, 352, 353, 120-B of the I.P.C. and section 7 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, Police Station-Kotwali City,District-Pratagarh.
Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and were never involved in committing the offence as has been mentioned in the first information report. He added that due to enmity, their names have been planted in the first information report and thereafter they have been chargesheeted. He next added that due to unavoidable circumstances, they could not appear before the court below. At this stage, learned counsel for the applicants submits that he does not want to press the application and seeks liberty to file bail application before the learned trial court which may be decided in view of law laid by Hon'ble Supreme Court's judgment in the case of Satender Kumar Antil versus Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022)10 SCC 51. Learned A.G.A. has no objection to the prayer
made by learned counsel for the applicants. On due consideration to the submissions of
learned counsel for the parties', it is provided that in case, the applicants appear before the trial court within two weeks from today and file bail application, the same shall be decided expeditiously in view of law laid down in the case of Satender Kumar Antil (supra). Further, the applicants will have an opportunity at the appropriate stage to move an application for discharge taking therein all the pleas factual and legal which may be available to them, in accordance with law. In case, such an application is moved before the learned trial court, the learned trial court shall dispose of the same by a speaking and reasoned order strictly, in accordance with law. The application is disposed of accordingly.
Order Date :- 7.8.2025 AKS Digitally signed by :- ANUJ KRISHNA SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench