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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 25292 of 2018 Petitioner :- Arshad Khan And 02 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 02 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Subhash Chandra Yadav Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri S.C.Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri G.P.Singh, learned A.G.A. appearing for the State and perused the impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
The relief sought in this petition is for quashing of the F.I.R. dated 30.8.2018, registered as case crime No.341 of 2018, under Section 420 I.P.C., Section 3/7 of Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and Section 66-C of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2000, P.S. Bhawan, District Shamli.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case though no offence as has been mentioned in the F.I.R. is made out against them as he has no role to play in the present crime, hence the present F.I.R. is liable to be quashed.
Learned A.G.A. opposed the prayer for quashing of the F.I.R. which discloses cognizable offence and submitted that the present case relates to Public Distribution System scam in which fraud has been committed while distributing the food grains and essential commodities to the card holders by misusing the E-Pos system. The said offence has been committed in the entire State and the involvement of the petitioner in the present case cannot be ruled out. He further submits that the F.I.R. of the present case has been lodged after due approval of the District Magistrate. He further submits that in a similar case this Court while dismissing the petition has passed a detailed order on 6.9.2018 in Crl. Misc. Writ Petition No. 24575 of 2018 (Amit Kumar Jadaun (Amit) vs. State of U.P. and others).
After having examined the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and perused the impugned FIR, we are of the opinion that the impugned FIR discloses cognizable offence against the petitioners, hence, no interference is called for by this Court in its extraordinary power under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for quashing of the FIR or for grant of any interim relief to the petitioners.
The petition lacks merit and is, accordingly, dismissed.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 12.9.2018 NS