HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 37238 of 2025 Court No. - 74 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. Sri Ramakant Tiwari, learned counsel for the applicants, Shri Abhishek Kumar, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 528 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed by the applicant to quash the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No. 198 of 2022 as well as cognizance/summoning order dated 6.6.2025, under Sections 115(2), 351(2), 352 of B.N.S. (Sections 323, 506, 504 of I.P.C.), Police Station- Barsathi, District- Jaunpur, pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No. 4, Jaunpur. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the offence is punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. It is further submitted that cognizance order has been passed against Lokpati, who has died before the cognizance order. Upon considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the prayer made by learned counsel for the applicants is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicants wants to withdraw the application with liberty to file a regular bail application before the court of competent jurisdiction. In case bail application is filed by the learned counsel for the applicants, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation & Another, (2022) 10 SCC 51, wherein the Supreme Court considering the category(A) as mentioned in the paragraph Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ramakant Tiwari, Umesh Chandra Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Girja Devi And 8 Others .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Opposite Party(s) no. 2, bail applications of such accused against which charge-sheet has been submitted on appearance may be decided without the accused being taken in physical custody or by granting interim bail till the bail application is decided. It has been observed that at the cost of repetition, we wish to state that, in category A, one would expect a better exercise of discretion on the part of the court in favour of the accused. The application stands disposed of with the aforesaid liberty. September 24, 2025 T. Sinha NA528 No. 37238 of 2025 2 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- TRIPTI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad