Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:20759 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 24424 of 2024 Applicant :- Manju And 7 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Kumar Anish,Sajiya Parveen Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Ms. Sajiya Parveen, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri Pankaj Kumar Rai, learned brief holder 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 Criminal Case No. 3248 of 2024, (State Vs. Shyam Sing and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 174 of 2023, under Sections 452, 147, 323, 506 of I.P.C., Police Station- Pali Mukimpur, District- Aligarh as well as cognizance/ summoning order 27.11.2023, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate, Atrauli, Aligarh. 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 :- 13.2.2025 MAA/- Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD AZAD ANSARI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad