HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 36658 of 2025 Court No. - 75 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. Sri Mukul Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant, 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. 840 of 2025, arising out of Case Crime No. 242 of 2025, under Sections 137(2), 74 of B.N.S. (Sections 363, 354 of I.P.C.), Police Station- Bhojpur, District- Moradabad as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 19.7.2025, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Outlying Court Thakurdwara, Moradabad. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet has been submitted against him. 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 applicant is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicant 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 applicant, 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 Bureau of Investigation & Another, (2022) 10 SCC 51, wherein the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Mukul Yadav, Rajesh Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mohammad Rakiv @ Rakib .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 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 14, 2025 T. Sinha NA528 No. 36658 of 2025 2 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad