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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:109096 Court No. - 77 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 21096 of 2025 Applicant :- Shafi Ullah Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Thakur Prasad Dubey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for applicant and learned AGA.
2. The present application has been preferred for seeking quashing of the chargesheet dated 12.06.2023 and cognizance order dated 20.1.2023 as well as entire proceedings of Case No.53886 of 2023, arising out of Case Crime No.102 of 2022, under Section 3/7 of E.C. Act, P.S. Nagfani, District Moradabad, pending in the court of learned Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No.1, Moradabad.
3. After arguing at some length, learned counsel for applicant 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 applicant surrender before it and applies for bail, his 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 AGA has no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application is finally
disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicant surrenders before the court concerned within a period of four weeks from today and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law.
5. However, it is made clear that till four weeks from today, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant herein in the present case.
Order Date :- 9.7.2025 Vivek Kr. Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad