Citation : 2025 Latest Caselaw 3011 ALL
Judgement Date : 6 January, 2025
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD ?Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:2065-DB Court No. - 43 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 23981 of 2024 Petitioner :- Vineet Tyagi And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Brijesh Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J.
Hon'ble Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi,J.
1. Heard Sri Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. for State respondents and Sri Arvind Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the informant.
2. This writ petition has been filed for quashing the impugned First Information Report dated 13.8.2024 registered as Case Crime No. 46 of 2024, under Sections 406, 420, 506 IPC, P.S. Basauni, District Agra. A further prayer has been made to command the respondents not to arrest the petitioners in the aforesaid case.
3. All alleged offences are punishable with imprisonment of seven years, therefore, the police authorities are bound to follow the procedure laid down under Section 35 BNS. The petitioners have been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Reliance has been placed on the judgment 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 Bench of this Court in Vimal Kumar & 3 Others Vs. State of U.P. & 3 Others, 2021 (2) ACR 1147.
4. 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 judgment are equally applicable to the facts of the instant case.
5. Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of the judgments noted above.
Order Date :- 6.1.2025/Madhurima
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