Ankur Kanaujiya and Others v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko and Others

Court No. - 10 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 9219 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ankur Kanaujiya And Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Manoj Kumar Dixit Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Narendra Kumar Johari,J. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. for the State/respondents and perused the material placed on record. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 25.11.2023, registered as F.I.R./Case Crime No.400/2023, under Sections 147, 323, 504, 506, 342, 332, 353 of I.P.C., at Police Station - Dubagga, District - Lucknow. Learned 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. 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 :- 5.12.2023 ML/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench