Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:75503 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 15354 of 2025 Applicant :- Pankaj Singh Alias Ajit Singh And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Abhai Kumar Tiwari,Ajai Kumar Singh Kushwaha,Ravi Kumar Sinha Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Ajai Kumar Singh Kushwaha, learned counsel for the applicants, Shri Alok Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed by the applicants to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 6233 of 2024 (State Vs. Harendra Singh and another) arising out of Case Crime No. 9 of 2023, under Sections 353, 504, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Dubahar, District- Ballia as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 21.3.2024, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Ballia. 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 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 :- 9.5.2025 T. Sinha Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad