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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 26427 of 2018 Petitioner :- Komal Bachchan Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 02 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Avnish Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri A.K. Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioners, 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 petitioners with a prayer to quash the F.I.R. dated 12.9.2018 registered as case crime no. 754 of 2018 under section 3/7 E.C. Act, 1955, 420 I.P.C. and 66 (Kha) I.T. Act, police station Brahmpuri, District Meerut.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner is a lady. She has been falsely implicated in the present case though she has no role to play in the commission of the offence in question.
Learned A.G.A.opposed the prayer for quashing of the FIR.
Considering the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties, nature of the allegations and considering the fact that the petitioner is a lady, it is directed that the petitioner shall not be arrested in above mentioned case, till the submission of the police report under section 173(2) Cr.P.C. but she shall co-operate with the investigation of the case.
With the above direction, this petition is finally disposed of.
The case of the petitioner is distinguishable from the case of other co- accused persons.
It is made clear that the Court has granted indulgence only on account of the fact that the petitioner is a lady and order granting interim protection to the petitioner shall not be treated as parity to other co-accused.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 24.9.2018 Shiraz