Pradeep Kumar Gupta and Another v. State of U.P. and Another

Court No. - 93 Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 41598 of 2023 Applicant :- Pradeep Kumar Gupta And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Sonu Kumar Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal,J.

¶1Heard Sri S.K. Tiwari, learned counsel for the applicants and learned AGA for the State.

¶2The present 482 Cr.P.C. application has been filed to stay and quash the charge-sheet dated 26.4.2029 along with entire proceedings of Case No.1425 of 2020 (State Vs Dharmendra Kumar and others), Case Crime No.343 of 2018, under Section 3/7 Essential Commodities Act, Police Station-Jawan, District-Aligarh, pending in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court No.1, Aligarh.

¶3At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicants submits that the applicants do not want to press the prayer for quashing the proceeding of impugned complaint case and submits that they want to surrender and apply for bail if suitable protection is granted to them.

¶4Considering the aforesaid submission, the present application is disposed of with a direction that if the applicants surrender and moves an application for bail before the court below within three weeks from today, then their application shall be considered in view of the law laid down in Satendra Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and Another, (2021) 10 SCC 773.

¶5For a period of four weeks or till disposal of the bail application, whichever is earlier, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicants. Order Date :- 8.11.2023 Irshad High Court of Judicature at Allahabad