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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:127725 Court No. - 77 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 31872 of 2024 Applicant :- Salman And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Brahma Kumar Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A. for the State.
2. This application under section 482 Cr.P.C. has been preferred to quash the charge-sheet dated 04.09.2017, cognizance/summoning order dated 07.09.2017 and the entire proceedings of Case No.5534/9 of 2017 (State vs. Shoaib and Others) arising out of Case Crime No.391 of 2017, under sections 3/5/8 of U.P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955, P.S. Jansath, District- Muzaffarnagar, pending in the court of learned Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarnagar as well as to stay the further proceedings of abovementioned case.
3. At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicants submitted that he is not pressing the application on merits and 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, 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 counsel for opposite parties have no objection.
4. In view of the aforesaid, the instant application under section 482 Cr.P.C. 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, their bail applications 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.
Order Date :- 31.7.2025 Saif Digitally signed by :- SHAIKH SAIF ABDIN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad