Court No. - 17
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 4901 of 2003 Applicant :- Babana Devi And Others Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And Others Counsel for Applicant :- Rakesh Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party :- Govt. Advocate,L.N.Shukla,Lok Nath Sharma,M.K. Gaur,N.K. Gaur,Pradeep Mishra
Hon'ble Suresh Kumar Gupta,J.
This application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for quashing the entire proceedings of criminal complaint case no.3441 of 2002 (Brij Bhushan vs. Babana Devi and others), u/s 420, 467, 468, 471, and 120-B IPC, police station Line Bazar, district Jaunpur, pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Jaunpur.
The contention of learned counsel for the applicants is that no offence against the applicants is disclosed and the present prosecution has been instituted with a malafide intention for the purposes of harassment.
From the perusal of the material on record and looking into the facts of the case at this stage it cannot be said that no offence is made out against the applicants. All the submission made at the bar relate to the disputed question of fact, which cannot be adjudicated upon by this Court in exercise of power conferred under Section 482 Cr.P.C. At this stage only prima facie case is to be seen in the light of the law laid down by Supreme Court in cases of R.P. Kapur Vs. State of Punjab, A.I.R. 1960 S.C. 866, State of Haryana Vs. Bhajan Lal, 1992 SCC (Cr.) 426, State of Bihar Vs. P.P.Sharma, 1992 SCC (Cr.) 192 and lastly Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. Vs. Mohd. Saraful Haq and another (Para-10) 2005 SCC (Cr.) 283. The disputed defence of the accused cannot be considered at this stage. Moreover, the applicants have got a right of discharge under Section 239 or 227/228 or 245 Cr.P.C. as the case may be through a proper application for the said purpose and he is free to take all the submissions in the said discharge application before the Trial Court.
The prayer for quashing the entire proceedings is refused.
However, it is provided that if the applicants appear and surrender before the court below within 30 days from today and apply for bail, then the bail application of the applicants be considered and decided in view of the law propounded by Hon'ble Apex Court. For a period of 30 days from today or till the disposal of the application for grant of bail, whichever is earlier, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicants. However, in case, the applicants do not appear before the Court below within the aforesaid period, coercive action shall be taken against them.
With the aforesaid directions, this application is finally disposed of.
Order Date :- 26.2.2019 m.a.