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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 25776 of 2018 Petitioner :- Mohammad Anas And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Mohd. Ayyuq Hasan Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A. appearing for the State and perused the impugned F.I.R. as well as material brought on record.
The relief sought in this petition is for quashing of the F.I.R. dated 15.08.2018 registered as Case Crime No.423 of 2018 under Sections 420, 406, 120B IPC, Police Station Kutubsher, District Saharanpur.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are innocent and the present FIR has been lodged with a malafide intention for the purposes of harassment, hence the same is liable to be quashed.
Learned AGA opposed the prayer for quashing of the FIR which discloses cognizable offence and submits that it is a case of financial fraud.
The Full Bench of this Court in Ajit Singh @ Muraha v. State of U.P. (2006 (56) ACC 433) reiterated the view taken by the earlier Full Bench in Satya Pal v. State of U.P. (2000 Cr.L.J. 569) after considering the various decisions including State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (AIR 1992 SC 604) that there can be no interference with the investigation or order staying arrest unless cognizable offence is not ex-facie discernible from the allegations contained in the F.I.R. or there is any statutory restriction operating on the power of the Police to investigate a case.
From the perusal of the FIR, prima facie it cannot be said that no cognizable offence is made out. Hence no ground exists for quashing of the F.I.R. or staying the arrest of the petitioners.
The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 17.9.2018/Madhurima