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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:119381 Court No. - 77 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 25566 of 2025 Applicant :- Saleem And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Balram Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for applicants and learned AGA.
2. The present application has been preferred for seeking quashing of the chargesheet dated 20.02.2015 and cognizance order dated 03.08.2015 as well as non bailable warrant dated 20.06.2017 along with entire proceedings of Case No.3171 of 2015 (State Vs. Mansoor Ali and others), arising out of Case Crime No.132 of 2015, under Section 3/5A/8 Cow Slaughter Act and Section 11 of Animal Cruelty Act, P.S. Dudhara, District Sant Kabir Nagar, pending in the court of learned Civil Judge (J.D.)/Judicial Magistrate, Sant Kabir Nagar.
3. After arguing at some length, learned counsel for applicants 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 in pursuance of NBW order dated 20.06.2017, the same 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 applicants surrender before the court concerned within a period of three weeks from today and apply for bail in pursuance of NBW order dated 20.06.2017, the same 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 in the present case. Order Date :- 22.7.2025 Vivek Kr. Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad