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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 25302 of 2018 Petitioner :- Ghuran Chauhan And 07 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 03 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anil Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri Anil Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Gaurav Pratap Singh, learned Brief Holder 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 25.07.2018 registered as Case Crime No. 0150 of 2018, under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC, Police Station-Sidhari, District Azamgarh.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the Director of the Company in question has already been bailed out. The petitioner nos. 1 to 4 are the agents and petitioner nos. 5 to 7 are office staff They are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the present case. The allegations levelled against the petitioners are absolutely false, frivolous and baseless. From a perusal of the FIR, no offence is made out against the petitioners, hence, the same be quashed.
Learned A.G.A. opposed the prayer for quashing of the F.I.R. which discloses cognizable offence.
The Full Bench of this Court in Ajit Singh @ Muraha v. State of U.P. (2006 (56) ACC 433) reiterated the view taken by the earlier Full Bench in Satya Pal v. State of U.P. (2000 Cr.L.J. 569) after considering the various decisions including State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (AIR 1992 SC 604) that there can be no interference with the investigation or order staying arrest unless cognizable offence is not ex-facie discernible from the allegations contained in the F.I.R. or there is any statutory restriction operating on the power of the Police to investigate a case.
From the perusal of the FIR, prima facie it cannot be said that no cognizable offence is made out. Hence no ground exists for quashing of the F.I.R. or staying the arrest of the petitioners.
The court below shall consider the bail application of the petitioners in case they move the said application.
The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 12.9.2018 AU