HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 9117 of 2025 Court No. - 28 HON'BLE PRAMOD KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J. Heard, learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State as well as perused the record. The instant application has been filed for quashing of the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No. 1377 of 2019 (State Vs. Mahesh Kumar and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 236 of 2018, registered under Sections 498A, 323 IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act (D.P. Act), at Police Station- Loni Katra, District- Barabanki, pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 19, Distric Barabanki, with a further prayer to stay the operation of the summoning order dated 03.08.2018 and the proceedings of the aforesaid Case during the pendency of the present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) / Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (B.N.S.S.) in the interest of justice. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and they have been falsely implicated in the present case with false and frivolous allegations. The applicants have not committed alleged offence. On the other hand, learned AGA has submitted that prima facie, the offence is made out against the applicants. It is further submitted that these are disputed questions of fact, which can be adjudicated only after adducing the evidence. He further controverts the submissions of learned counsel for the applicants on the ground that this is not a stage where minute and meticulous exercise with regard to the appreciation of evidence may be done and truthfulness of the allegations could only be tested in a criminal trial and, therefore, the application is misconceived and liable to be dismissed. At this stage, learned counsel for the applicants submits that they do not want to press Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Mohd. Ghayasuddin Khan Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Smt. Rekha Devi And 3 Others .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) the application and seek liberty to file bail application before the learned trial court which may be decided in view of law laid by Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. 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 versus Central Bureau of Investigation and another (supra). The application is disposed off accordingly. October 28, 2025 Haseen U. A482 No. 9117 of 2025 2 (Pramod Kumar Srivastava,J.) Digitally signed by :- HASEENUDDIN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench