Pankaj Verma and Others v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home and Others

Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7854 of 2023 Petitioner :- Pankaj Verma And Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Prabhakar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Narendra Kumar Johari,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.

¶2Under challenge in this writ petition is the First Information Report dated 11.09.2023, lodged as F.I.R. No.0228 of 2023, under Sections - 420, 406, 504, 506 of the I.P.C. at P.S.- Ibrahimpur, District-Ambedkar Nagar.

¶3Learned counsel for the petitioners 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.

¶4Accordingly, 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 :- 11.10.2023 Arnima High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench