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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 25684 of 2018 Petitioner :- Prem Raj/Prem Pal Maurya According Fir Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sageer Ahmad Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri Saqeer Ahmad, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri N.K. Verma, 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 13.8.2018, registered as case crime no.543 of 2018, u/s 272 IPC and 60(2) U.P. Excise Act, 1910, P.S. Bhojipura, district Bareilly.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner disputes his identity as he was not present at the place of incident and he is not involved in the present case as the person who is named in the FIR is said to have fled away from the place of occurrence. The petitioner is a sweet maker/halwai and engaged in business of selling the sweets. The allegations made against the petitioner 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 petitioner.
The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 17.9.2018 Gaurav