INDRAWATI @ INDRAWATI DEVI AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER
NA528/8545/2025 · 2025-03-17
Sanjay Kumar Pachori
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:38648 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 8545 of 2025 Applicant :- Indrawati @ Indrawati Devi And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ajeet Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.
1. Shri Ajeet Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State are present. 2. The Present application under Section 482, Cr.P.C. has been filed by the applicants to quash the order dated 20.05.2019 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mau, in criminal case No. 3896 of 2019 (State v. Achchay Lal and Others), arising out of NCR No. 175 of 2017, under Sections 323 and 504 of I.P.C., P.S. Ghosi, District Mau, whereby cognizance has been taken as a State case. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that NCR has been registered against the applicants at Police Station Ghosi, District Mau, under Sections 323 and 504 of I.P.C. registered as NCR No. 175 of 2017. After completing the investigation, charge-sheet has been submitted under Sections 323 and 504 of I.P.C. and the magistrate took cognizance under Sections 323 and 504 of I.P.C.
4. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the offence punishable under Sections 323 and 504 of I.P.C. are non- cognizable offence as per provision of Section 2(d) of Cr.P.C. the case could not be a State case and it has been proceeded as a State case, the cognizance/ summoning order is an abuse of the process of law. 5. Section 2(d) of Cr.P.C. is reproduced herein below: (d)"complaint" means any allegation made orally or in writing to a Magistrate, with a view to his taking action under this Code, that some person, whether known or unknown, has committed an offence, but does not include a police report. Explanation.-A report made by a police officer in a case which discloses, after investigation, the commission of a non-cognizable offence shall be deemed to be a complainant, and the police officer by whom such report is
made shall be deemed to be the complainant;
6. A bare perusal of explanation added to Section 2(d) shows that this explanation speaks about cases where police has investigated a cognizable case but investigation made discloses a non-cognizable offence. 7. In view of what has been stated above, the present application is disposed of.
The order impugned dated 20.05.2019 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mau, is, hereby, quashed. The matter is remanded back to the Court concerned and the Magistrate is
directed to pass a fresh order after applying the judicial mind.
Order Date :- 18.3.2025 Akram Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD AKRAM High Court of Judicature at Allahabad