Allahabad High Court
Raj Kumar And 4 Others vs State Of U.P. And Another on 24 May, 2023
Bench: Samit Gopal
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
?Neutral Citation No. - 2023:AHC:115492
Court No. - 71
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 19518 of 2023
Applicant :- Raj Kumar And 4 Others
Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And Another
Counsel for Applicant :- Ramesh Kumar Shukla
Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Samit Gopal,J.
1. List revised.
2. Heard Sri Ramesh Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Sai Girdhar, learned brief holder for the State and perused the record.
3. This application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed by the applicants- Raj Kumar, Virendra, Mohan, Vijay and Atar Singh with the prayer to allow this application and quash the proceeding as well as order dated 03.07.2019 in Case No. 959 of 2019 (State Vs. Surajbhan and others) arising out of Case Crime No. 244 of 2018, under Section 2/3 the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, Police Station Mandawar, District Bijnor pending in the Court of Additional Civil Judge (S.D.), Court No.3, Bijnor with a further prayer that proceedings of the aforesaid case be stayed against the applicants during the pendency of the present application.
4. Learned counsel for the applicants has drawn the attention of the Court to the summoning order, the copy of which is annexed at page no. 48 to the paper book (Annexure No. 4). It is argued that the same is on a printed proforma without application of mind. It is argued that from perusal of the order dated 03.07.2019, it is apparent that the same is on a printed proforma in which the Section, Police Station, Case No., name of the accused(s) have been filed by ink along with next date for appearance of the accused(s) whereas all the other contents of the order are previously printed. It is argued that the same clearly demonstrates that there has been total non application of mind by the concerned trial court and the order taking cognizance and summoning the accused is thus bad in the eyes of law.
5. Learned counsel for the State though opposed the prayer for quashing but could not dispute the fact that the order taking cognizance and summoning the accused dated 03.07.2019 is on a printed proforma which have been filled in ink.
6. Time and again, it has been held that orders of printed proforma cannot be passed and the said system of passing such orders have been deprecated.
7. In the case of Amit Jani vs. State of U.P. and others: (2020) 5 ADJ 1, a Division Bench of this Court has held as follows:-
"The passing of orders in printed proforma/cyclostyled formats have been deprecated by various High Courts including this court as they do not reflect application of mind. Reference is made to the following judgments:-
1. 2000 ILR (Kar) 4773, Vijaya Bank Vs. State.
2. 2010(9) ADJ 594, Abdul Rasheed Vs. State of U.P. & another.
3. 2009 (67) ACC 532, Ankit Vs. State of U.P. & another.
4. 2010 (3) ADJ 622, Saurabh Dewana Vs. State of U.P."
8. Looking to the facts and circumstances of the case and without going into the merits of the case as of now, the order dated 03.07.2019 is hereby set aside.
9. The present application is allowed to this extent.
10. The matter is remanded back to the court below to pass fresh order in accordance with law within a period of three weeks from the date of production of a certified copy of this order.
Order Date :- 24.5.2023
AS Rathore
(Samit Gopal,J.)
