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2025 DAILYLAW 66838 (ALL)

NEHA JAISWAL AND 2 OTHERS v. State of U.P. AND ANOTHER

A482/22015/2024 · 2025-02-19

Sanjay Kumar Pachori

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:24584 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 22015 of 2024 Applicant :- Neha Jaiswal And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Balendra Deo Misra,Dinesh Kumar Mishra,Mukesh Kumar,Rakesh Kumar Tripathi Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Manoj Kumar Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Rakesh Kumar Tripathi, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Manoj Kumar, learned counsel for the private opposite party no. 2 and Sri R.K. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Case No. 13722 of 2024 (State Vs. Neha Jaiswal and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 09 of 2024, under Sections 323, 427, 452, 504, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Kotwali, District- Gorakhpur as well as cognizance/ summoning order dated 11.03.2024 pending in the Court of A.C.J.M.-II, Gorakhpur. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that applicants were not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have been submitted against them. 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 applicants is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicants 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 judgments 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 except 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 :- 20.2.2025 MAA/- Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD AZAD ANSARI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad