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2025 DAILYLAW 176108 (ALL)

SONU SONI v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. ITS PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO. AND ANOTHER

A482/9123/2025 · 2025-10-29

Brij Raj Singh

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 9123 of 2025 Court No. - 16 HON'BLE BRIJ RAJ SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material placed on record. 2. The present 482 Cr.P.C. application has been filed with a prayer to quash the order dated 12.08.2025 passed by III-Additional District & Sessions Judge, Bahraich in Criminal Revision No.174 of 2024 (Sonu Soni vs. State of U.P. and another) and summoning order dated 26.10.2023 passed by the learned Civil Judge(Junior Division)/Judicial Magistrate, district Bahraich in Complaint Case No.19759 of 2023, (Suresh Kumar Soni vs. Sonu Soni). 3. At the very outset, counsel for the applicant states that the offence is punishable upto seven years and applicant will surrender before the court below and apply for bail. However, he has submitted that the applicant may be granted the benefit of the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another reported in (AIR 2022 SC 3386). 4. It is therefore, directed that in case the applicant surrenders before the Court below within two weeks from today and prefers bail application, the court below will decide the said bail application within three weeks thereafter taking into account the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil (supra). 5. For a period of five weeks. no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant in the aforesaid case. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ashok Kumar Singh, Suraj Saran Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sonu Soni .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) 6. The application stands disposed of. 7. It is made clear that no application for extension of time shall be entertained if this order is not availed by the applicant in the stipulated period of time. October 29, 2025 Pks A482 No. 9123 of 2025 2 (Brij Raj Singh,J.) Digitally signed by :- POOJA SETH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench