Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:75737 Court No. - 72 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 16266 of 2025 Applicant :- Vinay Kumar Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ajeet Dixit,Sr. Advocate Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Anil Kumar Srivastava, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Ajeet Dixit, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Tej Bhan Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 26779 of 2022, (State Vs. Vinay Kumar) arising out of Case Crime No. 387 of 2020, under Sections 420, 406, 120-B of I.P.C., Police Station- Bilsi, District- Budaun, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 19.12.2022 pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Budaun. Learned Senior Counsel for the applicant submits that applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge- sheet has been submitted against him. 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 applicant is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicant 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 :- 9.5.2025 Ishan Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad