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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:81539 Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 17012 of 2025 Applicant :- Nafees @ Nafees Khan Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Siraj Ahmad Khan,Vikrant Gupta Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for applicant and learned AGA.
2. The present application has been preferred for seeking quashing of the summoning order dated 21.01.2025 passed in Criminal Case No.114 of 2025 (State Vs. Nafees), arising out of Case Crime No.9 of 2024, under Section 429 IPC and Section 3/11 of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, P.S. Arniya, District Bulandshahar as well as entire proceedings of the said case, pending in the court of learned Additional Civil Judge (Jr. Division), Khurja, Bulandshahar.
3. After arguing at some length, learned counsel for applicant confined his prayer only to the extent that the present application may be disposed of finally with a direction to the court concerned that in case applicant surrenders before it and applies for bail, his bail application may be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law, including the law laid down in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825) to which learned AGA has no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application is finally
disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicant surrenders before the court concerned within a period of three weeks from today and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law.
5. However, it is made clear that till three weeks from today, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant herein in the present case.
Order Date :- 15.5.2025 Vivek Kr. Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad