Kamla Alias Kamla Devi vs State Of U P And Another
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
 
 

?Court No. - 48
 

 
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 16747 of 2022
 

 
Petitioner :- Kamla Alias Kamla Devi
 
Respondent :- State Of U P And Another
 
Counsel for Petitioner :- Maha Prasad,Mohammad Iliyas
 
Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
 

 
Hon'ble Suneet Kumar,J.

Hon'ble Syed Waiz Mian,J.

Heard Sri Maha Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. for the State.

The present writ petition has been preferred with the prayer to quash the impugned First Information Report dated 23.06.2022, registered as Case Crime No. 653 of 2022, under Section 135 of Electricity Act, 2003, Police Station-Anti Power Theft, Chitrakoot.

The submission is that all alleged offences are punishable with imprisonment of seven years, therefore the police authorities are bound to follow the procedure laid down under Section 41-A Cr.P.C. The petitioners have been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Reliance has been placed on the judgement of Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 and Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar Vs. Union of India, Ministry of Law and Justice and others in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 73 of 2015 with Criminal Appeal No. 1265 of 2017 Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 156 of 2017 and co-ordinate Division Bench of this Court in Vimal Kumar & 3 others Vs. State of U.P. & 3 others in 2021 (2) ACR 1147.

We have gone through the impugned first information report and we are of the opinion that the guidelines framed by the Apex Court in the above noted judgements are equally applicable to the facts of the instant case.

Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in the light of the judgments as noted above.

Order Date :- 10.11.2022

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