Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:145423 Court No. - 71 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 27504 of 2025 Applicant :- Nisar And 3 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Satish Kumar Tyagi Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Raj Beer Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. This application u/s 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (hereinafter referred to as 'BNSS') has been filed for quashing of the entire proceedings, including charge-sheet dated 17.02.2025 as well as cognizance / summoning order dated 05.04.2025, of Case No. 7255 of 2025, arising out of Case Crime No. 0135 of 2024, under Sections - 420, 406 I.P.C., Police Station - Bhojpur, District - Ghaziabad, pending in the court of Additional Civil Judge (Jr. Div) / F.T.C.-1, Ghaziabad. 3. It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicants that first information report of this case has been lodged making false allegations. It is further submitted that by impugned order applicants have been summoned for offence under Sections - 420, 406 I.P.C. and as per law laid down in case of Delhi Race Club (1940) Ltd. and Others Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another; 2024 SCC Online SC 2248, the offence of cheating viz- a-viz criminal breach of trust are independent and distinct and both cannot exist simultaneously and on this account alone the impugned summoning order is liable to be set aside. 4. Perusal of record shows that by impugned order dated 05.04.2025 applicants have been summoned under Sections - 420, 406 I.P.C.. As stated above, in case of Delhi Race Club (supra), it has been held by the Hon'ble Apex Court that the offence of cheating viz-a-viz criminal breach of trust are independent and distinct and the same cannot exist simultaneously in same set of facts and that they are antithetical to each other. Thus, it is clear that impugned summoning order is not in accordance with law. 5. In view of aforesaid, the impugned summoning order dated 05.04.2025, passed by the Additional Civil Judge (Jr. Div) / F.T.C.- 1, Ghaziabad, qua the applicants, is hereby set aside and the matter is remitted back to the court concerned to pass an order on the point of summoning afresh, expeditiously in accordance with law. 6. The application u/s 528 BNSS is disposed of in above terms. Order Date :- 22.8.2025 S Rawat Digitally signed by :- SHOBHIT RAWAT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad