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2025 DAILYLAW 33309 (ALL)

GIRIJESH KUMAR PANDEY v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER

NA528/9847/2025 · 2025-04-08

Sanjay Kumar Pachori

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:51757 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 9847 of 2025 Applicant :- Girijesh Kumar Pandey Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ravindra Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. During the course of hearing, learned counsel for the applicant corrected the prayer clause. Heard Sri Ravindra Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Tej Bhan Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of B.N.S.S. has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 1748 of 2024 (State Vs. Om Prakash Yadav and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 337 of 2022, under Sections 406, 419, 420 of I.P.C., Police Station- Kotwali, District- Ballia, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 23.1.2024, pending in the Court of C.J.M., Ballia. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have 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 applicant, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgment 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 expect 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 :- 9.4.2025 A.P. Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANAND PRAKASH PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad