Surendra Bahadur Singh Alias Surendra Pratap Singh v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko and Others

Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 8766 of 2023 Petitioner :- Surendra Bahadur Singh Alias Surendra Pratap Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anand Dubey,Martand Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Narendra Kumar Johari,J.

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

¶2Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 18.10.2023, lodged as F.I.R. No.0691 of 2023, under Section 380 of the I.P.C., at P.S. Kotwali Nagar, District Ayodhya.

¶3Learned 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.

¶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 :- 9.11.2023 Rahul High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench