Nihal Singh Lodhi And 3 Others vs State Of U.P. And Another
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
 
 

?Court No. - 85
 

 
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 9600 of 2022
 

 
Applicant :- Nihal Singh Lodhi And 3 Others
 
Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another
 
Counsel for Applicant :- Nanhe Lal Tripathi
 
Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
 

 
Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh,J.

Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. for the State.

The present 482 Cr.P.C. application has been filed with a prayer to quash the Charge Sheet dated 17.10.2021 as well as summoning order dated 30.11.2021 and to direct the court below to consider and decide the bail application of the applicants expeditiously in view of the settled law laid by Hon'ble Apex Court in the judgment rendered in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another reported in [(2021) 10 SCC 773] S.S.T. No. 345 of 2021 (State Vs. Nihal Singh and Others), under Sections 323, 504, 506 IPC and Section 3(1) Da, 3(1) Dha of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities)Act, 1989, (bearing Case Crime No. 131 of 2021, police station - Narahat, District Lalitpur, with a further prayer to direct the Authority concerned not to take coercive action against the applicants in respect of the aforesaid summoning order and case crime.

At the very outset, counsel for the applicants states that the applicants will surrender before the court below and apply for bail.

Learned counsel for applicants has cited judgment Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Hitesh Verma Vs. State of Uttrakhand and Another. In the said judgment Hon'ble Supreme Court has said that the application U/S 482 Cr.P.C. can be invoked to meet ends of justice in the case of S.C./S.T. Act and charge sheet can be quashed. The said judgment is recent judgment decided on 5.11.2020 reported in (2020) 10 SCC 710. She has further invited attention of this Court in the judgment of Satish Kumar Sharma Vs. State of U.P. and Another decided on 17.7.2019 in Application U/S 482 Cr.P.C. No. 3560 of 2019 passed by co-ordinate Bench of this Court in which the Court has observed that the application U/S 482 Cr.P.C. can be maintained for quashing the charge sheet. She further invited the attention of this Court in the judgment passed by co-ordinate Bench of this Court at Lucknow vide order dated 18.3.2021 in Application U/S 482 Cr.P.C. No. 1380 of 2021 in which this Court has also taken note that of the judgment passed by the Supreme Court in Hitesh Verma Vs. State of Uttrakhand and Another (Supra) and the Court has held that the application U/s. 482 Cr.P.C. is maintainable.

It is therefore, directed that in case the applicants surrender before the court below within one month from today and prefer bail application, it will decide the said bail application, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of one month, thereafter. It is further provided that while deciding the bail application of the applicant, the court below will take into account the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another reported in [(2021) 10 SCC 773] and decide it in accordance with law.

The application stands disposed of.

Order Date :- 12.7.2022

Arun K. Singh