Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:78730-DB Court No. - 43 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 9666 of 2025 Petitioner :- Brijvendra Singh And Another Respondent :- State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Manoj Dubey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Jitendra Kumar Sinha,J. 1. Heard Sri Manoj Dubey, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Ghanshyam Kumar, learned A.G.A. for State respondents. 2. This writ petition has been filed for quashing the impugned First Information Report dated 29.4.2025 registered as Case Crime No. 0152 of 2025 under Sections 3/7 Essential Commodities Act, P.S. Bar, District Lalitpur. Further prayer has been made to command the respondents not to arrest the petitioners in the aforesaid case. 3. Although, prayer for quashing of FIR has been made, but without insisting on the same, only submission is that all the alleged offences are punishable with imprisonment of seven years, therefore, the police authorities are bound to follow the procedure laid down under Section 35 BNSS. The petitioners have been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Reliance has been placed on the judgment of Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 and Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar Vs. Union of India, Ministry of Law and Justice and others in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 73 of 2015 with Criminal Appeal No. 1265 of 2017 Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 156 of 2017 and Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Vimal Kumar & 3 Others Vs. State of U.P. & 3 Others, 2021 (2) ACR 1147. 4. We have gone through the impugned first information report and we are of the opinion that the guidelines framed by the Apex Court in the above noted judgment are equally applicable to the facts of the instant case. 5. Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of the judgments noted above. Order Date :- 14.5.2025 Madhurima Digitally signed by :- MADHURIMA GARG High Court of Judicature at Allahabad