WARIS QURASHI AND 2 OTHERS v. State of U.P. AND ANOTHER
A482/24840/2024 · 2025-05-21
Saurabh Srivastava
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:88205 Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 24840 of 2024 Applicant :- Waris Qurashi And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Ankit Agarval Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for applicants and learned AGA appearing for the State.
2. This present application has been filed for seeking quashing of chargesheet dated 14.05.2020 along with cognizance order dated 06.08.2020 passed by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bulandshahar in Criminal Case No.3459 of 2020 (State Vs. Waris Quraishi and others), arising out of Case Crime No.286 of 2020, under Section 3/5/8 of Cow Slaughter Act, P.S. Kotwali Nagar, District Bulandshahar.
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 applicant nos.1 and 3 surrender before it and apply for bail, their 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. It has been apprised by learned counsel for applicants that applicant no.2 is already on bail.
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 nos.1 and 3 surrender before the court concerned within a period of three weeks from today and apply for bail, their bail application 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 applicant nos.1 and 3 herein in the present case. Order Date :- 22.5.2025 Vivek Kr. Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad