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2025 DAILYLAW 29398 (ALL)

SOMPAL AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P.

NA528/8834/2025 · 2025-03-18

Sanjay Kumar Pachori

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:39385 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 8834 of 2025 Applicant :- Sompal And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Gavendra Kumar Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Gavendra Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri Puspraj Singh, 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 arising out of Case Crime No. 83 of 2023, (State Vs. Sompal and others) under Sections 323, 308, 452, 504, 506, 427, 336 of .I.P.C., Police Station- Seohara, District- Bijnor, as well as charge-sheet dated 14.05.2023 pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bijnor/ Fast Track Court No. 1, Bijnor. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that applicants were not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have been submitted against them. 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 applicants is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicants 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 :- 19.3.2025 Ishan Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad