Court No. - 44
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 12307 of 2019 Petitioner :- Brijraj Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Triloki Nath Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.,Ashish Kumar Gupta
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Raj Beer Singh,J.
Heard Sri Triloki Nath, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri A.K. Gupta, learned counsel for the private respondent, Sri G.P. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
This petition has been filed by the petitioner with a prayer to quash the F.I.R. dated 15.11.2018 registered as case crime no. 1280 of 2018 under sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B I.P.C., police station Cantt., District Varanasi.
On going through the FIR, we are satisfied that no case is made out to quash the same. The contents of the report discloses commission of non- compoundable offence that demands investigation. It would be also be appropriate to state that prima facie we are also not satisfied that it is necessary to meet the ends of justice to quash the FIR and further that the investigation required to be made shall be abuse of the process.
In light of whatever stated above, we are not inclined to quash the FIR.
The petitioner/s has also prayed for an interim order to stay the arrest during the course of investigation relating to the FIR that is sought to be quashed in this petition for writ. In our opinion, when we are not inclined to grant the main relief sought by the petitioner/s, it would not be appropriate to grant the ancillary relief. Beside that the petitioner/s is/are having an efficacious remedy by way of filing an application under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) to have anticipatory bail apprehending arrest.
The petitioner/s may avail such remedy if so advised. As there appears to be an interim order passed in this petition by Co-ordinate Bench of this Court on 07.05.2019 staying arrest of the petitioner/s, the same shall remain continue till 31.07.2019, provided the petitioner/s move an application before the Court competent as per provisions of Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) on or before 30.07.2019.
The petition for writ is disposed of accordingly.
(Raj Beer Singh, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 25.7.2019 Anand