Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:78604 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 13672 of 2025 Applicant :- Chetan Verma Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Rajendra Rai Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. 1. Sri Rajendra Rai, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Ashwani Kumar Rai, learned A.G.A. for the State are present. 2. The present application under Section 528 of BNSS has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 2540 of 2024 (State vs. Chetan Verma), arising out of Case Crime No. 586 of 2021, under Sections 323, 504 of IPC, P.S. Kareli, District Allahabad as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 25.10.2024, pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 7, Allahabad. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the cognizance/summoning order dated 25.10.2024 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. 4. 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. 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 complaint, 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 25.10.2024 passed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 7, Allahabad is, hereby, quashed. The matter is remanded back to the court concerned and the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate is directed to pass a fresh order after applying the judicial mind. Order Date :- 14.5.2025 MAA/- Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD AZAD ANSARI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad