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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:30298 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 7003 of 2025 Applicant :- Jageshwar Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ashok Kumar Singh,Pratibha Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Ms. Pratibha Singh, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri B.N. Upadhyay, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 74108 of 2023, (State Vs. Jageshwar and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 313 of 2023, under Sections 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Eka, District- Firozabad, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 27.11.2023 pending in the Court of 2nd A.C.J. (J.D.)/ J.M. Sikohabad, Firozabad.
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 :- 4.3.2025 Ishan Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad