Veeri Singh and 3 Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh and 3 Others

Court No. - 45 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 18049 of 2023 Petitioner :- Veeri Singh And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Subhash Chand Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.,Anil Kumar Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Vinod Diwakar,J.

¶1Heard Shri Subhash Chand, learned counsel for the petitioners, Shri Anil Kumar, learned counsel for the informant and Shri G.P. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State respondents.

¶2The present writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash the impugned First Information Report dated 14.10.2023, registered as Case Crime No. 337 of 2023, under Sections 434, 506 IPC, P.S. Sasni Kotwali, District Hathras and for a direction to the respondents not to arrest the petitioners in pursuance of impugned First Information Report.

¶3Although prayer for quashing of FIR has been made but without insisting on the same only 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, 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.

4.We have gone through the impugned first information report and without interfering in the same, 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.

¶5Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of the judgements as noted above. Order Date :- 22.11.2023 Ujjawal High Court of Judicature at Allahabad