Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:34541 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 7828 of 2025 Applicant :- Ankit Kumar Gupta Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Prem Prakash Yadav,Ram Ajor,Sukhvir Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Prem Prakash Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Pankaj Kumar Rai, brief holder for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 14153 of 2024, (State of U.P. Vs. Ankit Kumar Gupta) arising out of Case Crime No. 255 of 2023, under Sections 323, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Medical College, District- Meerut, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 03.08.2024 pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Meerut. 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 :- 10.3.2025 Ishan Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad