Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:19213 Court No. - 75 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 31973 of 2024 Applicant :- Surya Prakash Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Karuna Nand Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J. Sri Karuna Nand Tiwari, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri S.P. Maurya, learned brief holder for the State and perused the material on record. The present application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been filed to quash the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 9005 of 2021 (State Vs. Surya Prakash), arising out of Case Crime No. 343 of 2018, under Section 420 of I.P.C., Police Station- Nichlaul, District- Maharajganj, as well as cognizance/ summoning order 11.7.2023, pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Maharajganj. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that applicant was not arrested during the course of investigation and the charge-sheet have been submitted against him. It is further submitted that the offence is punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. Upon considering the facts and circumstances of the case, the prayer made by learned counsel for the applicant is, hereby, refused. After some arguments, learned counsel for the applicant 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 applicant, the same shall be decided in the light of the observations made in the judgments 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 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 except 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. Order Date :- 10.2.2025 A.P. Pandey Digitally signed by :- ANAND PRAKASH PANDEY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad