Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:62934 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 12704 of 2025 Applicant :- Shiv Bahadur Singh And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Krishna Chandra Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. 1. Learned counsel for the applicants is permitted to correct the prayer clause during the course of day. 2. Sri Krishna Chandra Pandey, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri B.N. Upadhyay, learned A.G.A. for the State are present. 3. The present application under Section 528 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 292 of 2024 (State Vs. Shiv Bahadur Singh and others), arising out of N.C.R. No. 71 of 2021, under Sections 323, 504 of I.P.C., Police Station Madihan, District Mirzapur as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 21.11.2024, pending in the Court of Gram Nyayalay, Madihan, District Mirzapur. 4. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the cognizance/summoning order dated 21.11.2024 has been passed against the applicants and the magistrate took cognizance as a police case, which is against the provision of Section 2(d) of Cr.P.C. 5. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the offence punishable under Sections 323, 504 of I.P.C. is non-cognizable offence and 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. 6. 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 2 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 complaint, and the police officer by whom such report is made shall be deemed to be the complainant; 7. A bare perusal of explanation added to Section 2(d) shows that this explanation speaks about cases where police has investigated a case but investigation made discloses a non-cognizable offence. Such report shall be deemed to be a complaint. 8. In view of what has been stated above, the present application is disposed of. The order impugned dated 21.11.2024 passed by Gram Nyayalay, Madihan, District Mirzapur 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 :- 24.4.2025 T. Sinha Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad