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2025 DAILYLAW 98632 (ALL)

SANJAY GUPTA AND 2 OTHERS v. STATE OF U.P. AND ANOTHER

A482/31964/2024 · 2025-05-29

Saurabh Srivastava

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Court No. - 74 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 31964 of 2024 Applicant :- Sanjay Gupta And 2 Others Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Surendra Kumar Yadav,Syed Fahim Ahmed 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 12.09.2023 filed against applicant no.1 and charge-sheet dated 23.07.2023 filed against application nos.2 and 3, cognizance/summoning order dated 20.07.2024 and the entire proceedings of Case No.13262 of 2024 (State vs. Charu and others), arising out of Case Crime No.508 of 2022, under sections 506, 500 I.P.C. and Section 67 of Information Technology Act, P.S. Kharkauda, District Meerut, pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No.5, Meerut 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 the respondents 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 application(s) 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 in the aforesaid case. Order Date :- 30.5.2025 CS/- Digitally signed by :- CHANDAN SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad