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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:69280 Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 23320 of 2024 Applicant :- Sonu And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Applicant :- Hira Lal Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties
2. This application under section 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred to quash the impugned charge-sheet no. 1 of 2023 dated 12.09.2023, summoning/cognizance
order dated 27.10.2023 and the entire proceedings of Special Session Trial No. Nil of 2023 (State vs. Sonu and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 377 of 2023, under sections 354, 323, 504 IPC and Section 7/8 POCSO Act, Police Station- Chaubeypur, District-Varanasi pending in the court of learned Special Judge (POCSO Act), Varanasi as well as to stay the further proceedings of abovementioned case.
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 applications 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 the respondents have no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application under section 482 Cr.P.C. 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 :- 1.5.2025 #Vik/- Digitally signed by :- VIKRAM GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad