Court No. - 51
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 15054 of 2019 Petitioner :- Gopi @ Gofi Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Pradeep Kumar Bhardwaj Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Vipin Sinha,J. Hon'ble Pankaj Bhatia,J.
Heard Sri Pradeep Kumar Bhardwaj, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Rajesh Mishra, learned A.G.A. appearing for the State.
This writ petition has been filed with the prayer to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned F. I. R. which has been registered as Case Crime No.1582 of 2018, under Sections 406, 120-B, 420, 506, IPC, Police Station Sikandrabad, District Bulandshahar.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the impugned first information report has been lodged by the complainant-respondent containing absolutely false and concocted allegations against the petitioner with the ulterior intention of harassing the petitioner;
that the counsel for the petitioner has placed reliance upon the order dated 17.05.2019 passed by this Court, which shows that the identically situated co-accused namely Naipal and others has approached this Court by menace of filing Criminal Misc Writ Petition No. 13354 of 2019, in which indulgence has been granted by this Court, copy of which has been annexed on page no.28 of the writ petition; that the matter needs a deeper and fairer investigation before any arrest should be given effect to; that apart from the bald allegations made in the impugned F.I.R., no evidence is forthcoming even prima facie indicating at the complicity of the petitioner in the commission of alleged offence and hence the impugned F.I.R. which is a bundle of lies and motivated by malice, is liable to be quashed.
Per contra, learned A.G.A. has submitted that from the perusal of the allegations made in the impugned F. I. R., it cannot be said that no cognizable offence is made out, hence the impugned F.I.R. is not liable to be quashed.
Having heard the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and perused the impugned first information as well as the other material brought on record, we are not inclined to quash the impugned F.I.R.
However, considering the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case and the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties, we dispose of this writ petition with the direction that the petitioner shall not be arrested in the aforementioned case till submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C. However, petitioner shall participate and co-operate with the investigation and police authorities shall conclude the investigation as early as possible from the date of production of certified copy of the order.
With the aforesaid observations, the instant writ petition is finally disposed of.
Order Date :- 29.5.2019/VKG