HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 39945 of 2025 Court No. - 75 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. Sri Brijesh Kumar, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Alok Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed by the applicant to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 26685 of 2025, arising out of Case Crime No. 262 of 2023, under Sections 323, 504, 506, 452, 427 and 34 I.P.C. Police Station- Atrauliya, District- Azamgarh as well as summoning order dated 22.05.2025, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 22, Azamgarh. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that applicants were not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have been submitted against them. It is further submitted that the offence is punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. Upon considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the prayer made by learned counsel for the applicants is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicants wants to withdraw the application with liberty to file a regular bail application before the court of competent jurisdiction. In case bail application is filed by the learned counsel for the applicants, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Brijesh Kumar, Harish Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sudarshan Sharma And 11 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) Bureau of Investigation & Another, (2022) 10 SCC 51, wherein the Supreme Court considering the category(A) as mentioned in the paragraph no. 2, bail applications of such accused against which charge-sheet has been submitted on appearance may be decided without the accused being taken in physical custody or by granting interim bail till the bail application is decided. It has been observed that at the cost of repetition, we wish to state that, in category A, one would expect a better exercise of discretion on the part of the court in favour of the accused. The application stands disposed of with the aforesaid liberty. October 15, 2025 Vibha Singh NA528 No. 39945 of 2025 2 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- VIBHA SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad