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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:32343-DB Court No. - 47 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 3749 of 2025 Petitioner :- Lallan Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ravi Shankar Maurya,Ray Sahab Yadav Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Siddharth,J. Hon'ble Praveen Kumar Giri,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner; Shri Sushil Kumar Pandey,learned counsel for the respondent no.4 and learned AGA for State respondents. The present writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash the FIR dated 21.1.2025 in case no.-0087 of 2025 under Section 135 of Indian Electricity(Amendment) Act, 2003,Police Station- Anti Power Theft, District- Sonbhadra and for a direction to the respondents not to arrest the petitioner in pursuance of impugned First Information Report The petitioner has been implicated under section 135 of Electricity Act which is compoundable offence. The petition is disposed of directing that in case the petitioner applies for compounding of the offence alleged before the court below within period of one month from today, he shall not be arrested for a period of six months or till the conclusion of compounding proceedings before the court below, whichever is earlier. Order Date :- 6.3.2025 Atul kr. sri. Digitally signed by :- ATUL KUMAR SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad