Court No. - 51
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 11397 of 2019 Petitioner :- Imran Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Shams Uz Zaman Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Vipin Sinha,J. Hon'ble Ifaqat Ali Khan,J.
Sri Gauri Shankar Yadav, filed his appearance on behalf of respondent no. 3.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Mithilesh Kumar, learned A.G.A. 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 FIR dated 11.02.2019 registered as Case Crime No. 58 of 2019, Under Section 135 Electricity Act, Police Station Kotwali, District Meerut.
It is an admitted position that an offence under Section 135 of the Electricity Act is compoundable.
In view of the aforesaid, no useful purpose would be served in keeping the present application pending before this Court and, hence, the same is being disposed off in the following terms:
In case, the petitioner moves an application for compounding/dropping the proceedings before the appropriate authority in accordance with the provisions with regard to compounding within a period of one month from today, the appropriate authority shall consider and dispose of the same within a period of next two months by means of a reasoned and speaking order after giving an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner.
Till the disposal of the aforesaid petition by the appropriate authority, no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioner in the aforesaid case.
In case, the petitioner does not comply with the direction as given above, the interim protection granted by this Court shall stand automatically vacated.
Order Date :- 30.4.2019 Swati