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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 8728 of 2024 Court No. - 83 HON'BLE SHEKHAR KUMAR YADAV, J. Learned counsel for the appellant has filed supplementary today, taken on record. Heard learned counsel for the appellant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. This application has been filed for quashing of the chargesheet dated 22.02.2023 as well as cognizance and summoning order dated 24.05.2023 passed by Session Judge/Spl. Judge (SC/ST Act, Banda in S.T. No. 83/IX/2023 arising out of case crime no. 19 of 2023, under sections 308 and 336 IPC and section 3(2)(va) of SC/ST Act, P.S. Atarra, District Banda. On perusal of the record, the Court finds that the allegations made in the first information report disclose commission of a cognizable offence and those allegations have found support from the material collected during the course of investigation on the basis whereof the police has laid a charge sheet against the appellants.Therefore, prayer for quashing the chargesheet as well as cognizance order stand refused. At this stage, in case appellant appears before the court below within 30 days from today and applies for bail, the same shall be heard and disposed of in accordance with law in the light of Satendra Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 5191 of 2021, decided on 28.07.2021) has already laid down guidelines for grant of bail, without fettering the discretion of the courts concerned and the statutory provisions governing consideration in grant of bail, no specific direction need be issued by this Court as it is expected that the court concerned will take into consideration the necessary guidelines already issued by the Apex court. With the aforesaid observations, the application is disposed off. September 9, 2025 RPD Versus Counsel for Appellant(s) : Ankit Namdev, Rajneesh Kumar Sharma, Vinod Shankar Tripathi Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A., Ram Raksha Tiwari (Shekhar Kumar Yadav,J.) Karan .....Appellant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Digitally signed by :- RATAN PRAKASH DWIVEDI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad