HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 7751 of 2026 Court No. - 74 HON'BLE SANJAY KUMAR PACHORI, J. 1. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that due to inadvertence the prayer has been wrongly mentioned. 2. Learned counsel for the applicants is permitted to incorporated the amendment application and correct the same during the course of hearing. 3. Heard, Pankaj Kumar Ojha, learned counsel for the applicant and Shri Karunakar Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State. 4. The present application under Section 528 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been filed to quash the impugned notice-cum- order dated 19.12.2025 passed by Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sikandrarao, District Hathras in Case No. 9302 of 2025, whereby order under Section 107/16 of B.N.S.S./ 151 of Cr.P.C. has been passed. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that impugned notice-cum- order dated 19.12.2025 has been passed without considering the facts and circumstances and position of law as well as without assigning any reason for its satisfaction of the facts and circumstances of the case as required under Sections 126, 135 of B.N.S.S. to issue notice. It is further submitted that impugned notice-cum-order has been passed on printed proforma. 6. While assailing the impugned order, contention of learned counsel for the applicant is that the Sub Divisional Magistrate has not applied judicial mind in passing the order as the order has been made on a printed proforma, in which the name of the accused, case crime number and Section has been filled up by hand. 7. Learned counsel for the applicant relied upon the judgment of this Court Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Pankaj Kumar Ojha, Vivek Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Jitendra Yadav And 11 Others .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) in the Case of Siya Nand Tyagi Vs. State of U.P. reported in 1994 Cri. LJ 1298 and also the judgment of the Delhi High Court in the cases of Tavindar Kumar and another Vs. State reported in 1990 Cri. LJ 40 and judgment of the Apex Court in Madhu Limaye Vs. S.D.M. Monghyr (2); AIR 1971 SC 2486, wherein some guidelines have been laid down with regard to issuing the notice under Section 107/116 Cr.P.C. 8. Relying upon the decision of this Court in Ankit Vs. State of U.P. and another, JIC 2010 (1) 432, submission of the learned counsel for the applicant is that the order impugned being on a printed proforma is clearly without application of judicial mind and hence, is liable to be quashed on this ground alone. 9. Learned A.G.A. has also admitted that the order impugned has been passed on the printed proforma and therefore, keeping in view the decision in the case of Ankit (supra) as well as the law laid down by the Supreme Court, the Magistrate concerned may be directed to pass a fresh order. 10. I have considered the arguments so advanced by learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. and also perused the record. 11. The certified copy of the order summoning the accused has been appended as Annexure-2 at page-27 of the paper book. From a perusal of the above order, it is evident that it is a typed proforma where only information of case number, name of parties, section, date and next date is to be filled by Magistrate in handwriting. It appears that the blanks in the printed proforma have been filled up by some court employee and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Sikandrarao, District Hathras has thereafter just put his initial, which leads to the conclusion that the Magistrate has passed the order in a mechanical manner without application of judicial mind. 12. Despite law laid down by the Apex Court and this Court disapproving such practice of passing orders on printed proforma. It is very painful and unfortunate to see that applicant in the present case has been summoned by the Executive Magistrate by an order in which blanks have been filled in on a printed proforma without applying judicial mind. This type of order has already been held unsustainable by this Court in the case of Ankit (supra) relying on in a number of decisions of the Apex Court. The relevant portion of the said decision, is extracted below: "8. … Although as held by this Court in the case of Megh Nath Guptas & Anr V State of U.P. And Anr, 2008 (62) ACC 826, in which reference has been made to the cases of Deputy Chief Controller Import and Export Vs Roshan Lal Agarwal, 2003 (4) ACC 686 (SC), UP Pollution NA528 No. 7751 of 2026 2 Control Board Vs Mohan Meakins, 2000 (2) JIC 159 (SC): AIR 2000 SC 1456 and Kanti Bhadra Vs State of West Bengal, 2000 (1) JIC 751 (SC): 2000 (40) ACC 441 (SC), the Magistrate is not required to pass detailed reasoned order at the time of taking cognizance on the charge sheet, but it does not mean that order of taking cognizance can be passed by filling up the blanks on printed proforma. At the time of passing any judicial order including the order taking cognizance on the charge sheet, the Court is required to apply judicial mind and even the order of taking cognizance cannot be passed in mechanical manner. Therefore, the impugned order is liable to be quashed and the matter has to be sent back to the Court below for passing fresh order on the charge sheet after applying judicial mind." 13. In view of the above, the conduct of the Sub Divisional Magistrate concerned in passing orders on printed proforma by filling up the blanks without application of judicial mind is objectionable and deserves to be deprecated. The summoning of an accused in a criminal case is a serious matter and the order must reflect that Sub Divisional Magistrate had applied his mind to the facts as well as law applicable thereto. 14. In view of the facts and circumstances of the case, and the law laid down by the Supreme Court, the present application is allowed. The impugned impugned notice-cum- order dated 19.12.2025 passed by Sub- Divisional Magistrate, Sikandrarao, Hathras is, hereby, quashed. The Sub- Divisional Magistrate is directed to pass fresh order after applying the judicial mind. March 17, 2026 Ishan NA528 No. 7751 of 2026 3 (Sanjay Kumar Pachori,J.) Digitally signed by :- ISHAN JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad