Ankit @ Harshoday Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Civil Secrett. Lko. and Others

Court No. - 9 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4789 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ankit @ Harshoday Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Civil Secrett. Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Prashant Tiwari,Rajesh Kumar Mishra,Siddhant Singh Visen 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 dated 13.06.2023, lodged at Case Crime No.121 of 2023, under Sections - 354, 323, 506 I.P.C. and Section 7/8 POCSO Act, Police Station - Matera, District - Bahraich. 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 upto 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. Order Date :- 22.6.2023 Saurabh Yadav/- (Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi,J) (Dinesh Kumar Singh,J) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench