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2025 DAILYLAW 50739 (ALL)

HARPAL AND 3 OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER

NA528/17107/2025 · 2025-05-20

Sanjay Kumar Pachori

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:85886 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 17107 of 2025 Applicant :- Harpal And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ram Krishna Dubey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Heard Sri Ram Krishna Dubey, learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of B.N.S.S. has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 1673 of 2024 (State Vs. Harpal and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 280 of 2023, under Sections 323, 504, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Faizganj Behta, District- Budaun, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 6.12.2024, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Bisauli, Budaun. 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 :- 21.5.2025 A.P. Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANAND PRAKASH PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad