SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPCRL/1036/2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Navneet Singh, holding brief of Mr. Vinod Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. Mr. Tumul Nainwal, learned AGA for the State. 3. By the instant writ petition, petitioner is praying for quashing of FIR dated 14.08.2024 bearing FIR No. 299 of 2024 wherein as many as five persons have been implicated for the offences punishable under Section 323, 406, 420, 504, 506 IPC read with Section 4 / 22 Banning of Unregulated Deposits Schemes Act, 2019. 4. On 12.09.2025 interim protection was granted by the Coordinate Bench of this Court. 5. Learned State Counsel submits that admittedly all the offences are punishable for less than 7 years, therefore, the investigating officer is bound to follow the guidelines formulated by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar (2014) 8 SCC 273. 6. In such view of the matter, the instant writ petition is finally disposed of with the direction to the Investigating Officer to proceed with the investigation, however, while conducting the investigation he has to follow the guidelines formulated by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar (2014) 8 SCC 273. 7. Subject to the observation and direction, as above the instant writ petition is finally disposed of. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 12.02.2026 SKS