Deepak Yadav and 7 Others v. State of U.P. and 4 Others

Court No. - 45 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 15605 of 2023 Petitioner :- Deepak Yadav And 7 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajendra Kumar Srivastava,Prem Narayan Singh Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.,Agnivesh,Jadu Nandan Yadav Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Vinod Diwakar,J.

¶1Short counter affidavit filed by learned counsel for respondent no. 5 today, is taken on record.

¶2Heard Shri Anil Kumar Srivastava learned Senior Counsel assisted by Shri Prem Narayan Singh, learned counsel for petitioners, Shri Pranvesh holding brief of Shri J.N. Yadav, learned counsel for respondent no. 5 as well as learned A.G.A. for the State respondents.

¶3The present writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash the impugned First Information Report dated 09.02.2023 registered as Case Crime No. 30 of 2023, under Sections 420, 494 IPC, P.S.- Nagla Khangar, District-Firozabad and for a direction to the respondents not to arrest the petitioners in pursuance of impugned First Information Report.

¶4The submission is that all alleged offences are punishable with imprisonment upto seven years, therefore the police authorities are bound to follow the procedure laid down under Section 41-A Cr.P.C. The petitioners have been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Reliance has been placed on the judgement of Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 and Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar Vs. Union of India, Ministry of Law and Justice and others in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 73 of 2015 with Criminal Appeal No. 1265 of 2017 Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 156 of 2017 and in Satendra Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and Another

(2022) 10 SCC 51 and co-ordinate Division Bench of this Court in Vimal Kumar & 3 others Vs. State of U.P. & 3 others in 2021

(2) ACR 1147.

¶5We have gone through the impugned first information report and we are of the opinion that the guidelines framed by the Apex Court in the above noted judgement are equally applicable to the facts of the instant case.

¶6Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of the judgements as noted above. Order Date :- 31.10.2023 Sharad/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad