Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:26551 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 5905 of 2025 Applicant :- Azam Abbas Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Janardan Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Brijesh Kumar, Advocate holding brief of Sri Janardan Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri A.K. Singh, brief holder for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 1191 of 2025, (State Vs. Azam Abbas) arising out of Case Crime No. 229 of 2015, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 325, 308 of I.P.C., Police Station- Gambhirpur, District- Azamgarh, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 17.01.2025 pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 24, Azamgarh. 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 applicants, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgments rendered by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central 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 except 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. Order Date :- 24.2.2025 Ishan Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad