Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:84671 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 14778 of 2025 Applicant :- Sunil Kumar Kesharwani And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ramesh Kumar Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Heard Sri Ramesh Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. During course of hearing, learned counsel for the applicants corrected the prayer clause. The present application under Section 528 BNSS has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 3342 of 2018, arising out of Case Crime No. 179 of 2018, under Sections 419, 420, 504, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Puramufti, District- Kaushambi, as well as order dated 11.03.2025 whereby N.B.W has been issued pending in the Court of Additional Civil Judge (J.D.)- Ist, Kaushambi. 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 judgments 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 except 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 :- 19.5.2025 PS Digitally signed by :- POOJA SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad