Salman Qureshi v. State of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. and Others

Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4832 of 2023 Petitioner :- Salman Qureshi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Narendra Gupta Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh,J. Hon'ble Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report No.66 of 2023 under Sections 379, 411 IPC, Police Station Naimisharanya, District Sitapur. Learned counsel for the petitioner confines his prayer for issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate of Section 41A Cr.P.C. for the reason that the offences mentioned in the impugned First Information Report carry the sentence of up to 7 years of imprisonment. Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with the direction to the police authorities concerned to follow the mandate of Section 41A Cr.P.C. and also the directions issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, reported in (2014) 8 SCC 273. (Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi,J.) (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) Order Date :- 22.6.2023 prateek High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench