2025:UHC:3370 SL. No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS WPCRL No.408 of 2025 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J. Mr. Raj Kumar Singh, learned counsel for petitioners. 2. Mr. Bhasker Chandra Joshi with Mr. Vipul Painuli and Ms. Sweta Badola Dobhal, learned Brief Holders for State of Uttarakhand/respondent Nos.1 & 2. 3. By means of this criminal writ petition, petitioners have put to challenge the FIR No.0077 of 2025 dated 16.04.2025, under Sections 406 and 420 of IPC, registered with P.S. Basant Vihar, District Dehradun. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has limited his argument to the extent that the investigation agency should comply with the guidelines given in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar and another reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273. 5. Since the offences under Sections 406 and 420 of IPC, carry a punishment maximum to seven years, therefore, before resorting to any arrest a prior notice under Section 35(3) of the B.N.S.S., 2023 (under Section 41A of Cr.P.C.) is necessary to be issued to the petitioners. Hence, it is provided that before taking any coercive measures against petitioners, the Investigating Officer shall abide by procedure given 2025:UHC:3370 under Section 35(3) of the BNSS Act, 2023 (under Section 41A of Cr.P.C.). 6. Accordingly, the criminal writ petition stands disposed of. 7. Pending application, if any, also stands disposed of. (Pankaj Purohit, J.) 02.05.2025 PN PREETI NEGI Digitally signed by PREETI NEGI DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, ou=HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND, 2.5.4.20=63c75a8c4765581180a58d7478fadbe38331bac55 c78b5f9f0276c16432f6aab, postalCode=263001, st=UTTARAKHAND, serialNumber=2BA53171893B3C3CB3CCCAE81FAE064498 483A83D84BDB0F9229D5BF08D959AC, cn=PREETI NEGI Date: 2025.05.02 11:48:25 +05'30'