Court No. - 47
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7907 of 2021 Petitioner :- Akash Sharma And 5 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Mukesh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J. Hon'ble Ram Krishna Gautam,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A. for the State respondents.
By means of present writ petition, the petitioners, who are accused persons, are seeking direction to the respondent authorities to record the statement of petitioners through Video Conferencing or other means of communication in Case Crime no.10 of 2021 under Section 498-A, 377, 323, 504, 506 IPC and 3/4 D.P. Act, P.S. Shivpur, District Varanasi. Further prayer has been made not to take any coercive action against the petitioners in the aforesaid case.
At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioners confined his prayer to the effect that direction may be issued to the respondent authorities to ensure fair, impartial and proper investigation of the aforesaid case.
Learned A.G.A. submits that the First Information Report has been lodged in the month of January 2021 and police authorities are under the obligation to do the investigation fairly and expeditiously and if the investigation has already not been completed, the same would be done at the earliest.
In the facts and circumstances of the case, the present petition is disposed of directing the police authorities/Senior Superintendent of Police, Varanasi to ensure that the investigation of the said case shall be concluded fairly, impartially and expeditiously.
The party shall file computer generated copy of such order downloaded from the official website of High Court Allahabad, self attested by the petitioners alongwith a self attested identity proof of the said person (preferably Aadhar Card) mentioning the mobile number to which the said Aadhar Card is linked.
The concerned Court/Authority/Official shall verify the authenticity of such computerized copy of the order from the official website of High Court Allahabad and shall make a declaration of such verification in writing.
Order Date :- 21.9.2021 A. Pandey