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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 20017 of 2018 Petitioner :- Jay Shankar Srivastava And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ved Prakash Pathak,Santosh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri V.P. Pathak, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri G.P. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
This writ petition has been filed by the petitioners with a prayer for quashing the impugned FIR dated 2.7.2018 registered as case crime no. 394 of 2018 under sections 323, 504, 506, 376 I.P.C. and 3 (1) (xii) S.C./S.T. Act, police station Shivpur, District Varanasi.
It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the main allegation is against petitioner no. 1 and rest of the petitioners are his family members. They have been falsely implicated in the present case on account of said relationship, hence the present F.I.R. is liable to be quashed.
Per contra learned AGA for the State submitted that the impugned FIR is not liable to be quashed on the basis of the submissions advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioners.
After having heard learned counsel for the parties present and perused the impugned FIR as well as the other material brought on record, we dispose of this writ petition with the following directions:
(i) Investigation of the aforesaid case shall go on but the petitioner nos. 2 to 4 shall not be arrested in the aforesaid case till the submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C., subject to their cooperation during investigation.
(ii) As far as the petitioner no. 1 is concerned, the petition stand dismissed.
With this direction, this petition is finally disposed of.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 26.7.2018 Shiraz