PREM SINGH AND 4 OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER
NA528/18297/2025 · 2025-05-20
Saurabh Srivastava
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:85260 Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 18297 of 2025 Applicant :- Prem Singh And 4 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Chandra Prakash Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State.
2. This application under section 528 BNSS has been preferred to quash the cognizance/summoning order dated 21.04.2011 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.1617 of 2011 (State vs. Banwari Lal and Others) arising out of Case Crime No.452 of 2010, under sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 332, 353 I.P.C. and section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act and section 135A of Representation of People Act, P.S. Tundla, District- Firozabad, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Firozabad.
3. At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicants submitted that he is not pressing the application on merits and 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 applicants surrender before it and apply for bail, their 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 counsel for opposite parties have no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application under section 528 BNSS is finally disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicants surrender before the court concerned within a period of three weeks from today and apply for bail, their bail applications 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 applicants herein.
Order Date :- 21.5.2025 Saif Digitally signed by :- SHAIKH SAIF ABDIN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad