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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 26807 of 2018 Petitioner :- Atul Kumar Verma And 03 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 03 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Amulya Ratan Srivastava,Rajendra Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard A.R. Srivastava learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Gambhir Sing, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents authorities not to arrest the petitioners and with further prayer for quashing the impugned FIR dated 29.8.2018 registered as case crime no.0729 of 2018, under Sections 504, 506 IPC and Section 3/4 D.P. Act, P.S. Barra, District Kanpur Nagar.
It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the impugned FIR has been lodged by the respondent no. 4 roping in the entire family of the husband, petitioner no. 1 containing absolutely false, concocted, vague and sweeping allegations against them. It has next been submitted that apart from the bald allegations made in the FIR no credible evidence whatsoever is forthcoming even prima facie indicating at the petitioners' complicity in the commission of the alleged offence qua the petitioner nos. 2 to 4 hence the impugned FIR is liable to be quashed.
Per contra learned AGA for the State submitted that the impugned FIR is not liable to be quashed on the basis of the submissions advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioners.
After having heard learned counsel for the parties present and perused the impugned FIR as well as the other material brought on record, we dispose of this writ petition with the following directions:
(i) Investigation of the aforesaid case shall go on but the petitioner nos. 2 to 4 shall not be arrested in the aforesaid case till the submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C., subject to their cooperation during investigation.
(ii) As far as the petitioner no. 1 is concerned, the petition stands dismissed.
With this direction, this petition is finally disposed of.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 25.9.2018 AU