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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 23495 of 2018 Petitioner :- Pradeep Yadav Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Vinod Kumar Tirpathi Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri Vinod Kumar Tirpathi, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Prabhash Pandey, learned AGA 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 10.07.2018 registered as case crime no.138 of 2018, under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 272, 41, 411, 414 I.P.C. and 60, 64 Excise Act, Police Station Sikrara, District Jaunpur.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner is innocent and is not involved in such activities of manufacturing the country made liquor as alleged in the F.I.R. As per FIR, no offence is made out against the petitioner. The allegations made against the petitioners are absolutely false, frivolous and baseless, hence present FIR be quashed.
Learned AGA opposed the prayer for quashing of the FIR which discloses the cognizable offence.
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 :- 28.8.2018/Ashok Gupta