Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:48859-DB Court No. - 42 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 6199 of 2025 Petitioner :- Rana Pratap Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Dinesh Rai Counsel for Respondent :- Chetan Chatterjee,G.A. Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J. Hon'ble Prashant Kumar,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the the petitioner, Shri Kavindra Dwivedi, Advocate holding brief of Shri Chetan Chatterjee, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.G.A. for the State - respondents. 2. This writ petition has been filed with the prayer to quash the First Information Report dated 15.09.2022 in Case Crime No.2241 of 2022, under Section 135 of Electricity Act, 2003 Police Station- Anti Power Theft Police Station Azamgarh, District Azamgarh. 3. Since offence itself is required to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of Section 152 of Indian Electricity Act and the offence is otherwise compoundable, remedy of the petitioner would be to pursue the course available under the Act itself. 4. In view of the aforesaid and without expressing any opinion on merits of the case of the petitioner, this writ petition is disposed of giving liberty to the petitioner to apply for compounding before the competent authority in accordance with law within two weeks from today along with a certified copy of this order and in the event a compounding application is filed by the petitioner, the same shall be considered and decided by the competent authority in accordance with law within next one week. 5. For a period of three weeks, no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioner. (Prashant Kumar,J.) (Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.) Order Date :- 5.4.2025 A. Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANAND PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- ANAND PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad