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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4769 of 2018 Petitioner :- Meena Devi And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Through Secretary Home And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Rajnish Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Krishna Pratap Singh,J.
Sri A.K.Ojha, Advocate, has filed his Vakalatnama on behalf of respondent no.3 today in Court, which is taken on record.
Heard Sri Rajnish Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri A.K.Ojha, learned counsel for respondent no.3, Sri I.P.Srivastava, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the impugned FIR as well as material brought on record.
This petition has been filed by the petitioners with a prayer to quash the FIR 22.1.2018 registered as Case Crime No. 8 of 2018, under Sections 363, 366 I.P.C., Police Station Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that statement under Section 164 Cr.P.C. of the petitioner no.1-victim girl, namely, Meena Devi has been recorded in which she has stated that she voluntarily eloped with petitioner no.2 and as per the Adhar Card she is a major girl aged about, to which learned counsel for respondnet no.3 submits that as per the FIR, the victim girl appears to be minor girl aged about 16 years.
Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the kidnapped girl shall be produced before the court concerned, it is directed that in case the alleged kidnapped girl Km. Meena Devi appears/produced before the court of learned C.J.M. concerned within 20 days from today and moves an application for her medical examination, the learned Magistrate concerned shall fix a date for the same purpose, on that date the first informant & officer in charge of the police station concerned shall be summoned, she shall be produced before C.M.O. concerned by the concerned police officer for her medical examination, till then no coercive step shall be taken against the petitioners, in default of it, it shall be opened to the police authority concerned to arrest the petitioners, if she is found major and does not support the FIR version, the petitioners shall not be arrested till submission of the police report under section 173(2) Cr.P.C. but the petitioners shall co- operate with the investigation. In case the alleged kidnapped girl appears to be minor or if she is major but supports the prosecution version, it shall be opened to the police authority to arrest the petitioners. In case the petitioners approach the S.S.P. concerned to provide the security for the above mentioned purpose, the same shall be provided to them.
It is further directed that issue of custody of the alleged kidnapped girl shall also be decided by the CJM concerned in accordance with law.
With the above direction this petition is finally disposed of.
(Krishna Pratap Singh, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.)
Order Date :- 26.2.2018/NS