Court No. - 87
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 46835 of 2019 Applicant :- Rajesh Kumar And 4 Ors Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And Anr Counsel for Applicant :- Satendra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Virendra Kumar Srivastava,J.
The instant application has been filed u/s 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure (Code) for quashing the summoning order dated 14.3.2018 and entire criminal proceeding of Criminal Complaint Case No. 2012 of 2016, (Nirog Chandra Vs. Rajesh Kumar and Ors.), u/s 452, 323, 504, 506 IPC, P.S. Nagla Khangar, District Firozabad, pending in the court of A.C.J.M.- II, Firozabad.
Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for State and perused the record.
It is submitted by the learned counsel that the applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the present case due to counter blast to the F.I.R. lodged by the applicant No.1 against the O.P. No. 2 and others. It is further submitted that neither any injury has been shown in the complaint nor any medical examination was conducted of the injured person. The whole proceeding is nothing but abuse of process of law hence deserves to be quashed.
Learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the prayer and submitted that there is sufficient evidence for cognizable offence and applicants have been summoned after recording the statements of complainant and witnesses produced by him, under Sections 200 and 202 of the Code, respectively. He has further submitted that at this stage, the truthfulness or falsehood of the case cannot be adjudged.
Hon'ble Supreme Court in Sri R.P. Kapoor and Ors. vs. The State of Punjab AIR 1960 SC 866, Madhu Limaye vs. The State of Maharashtra AIR 1978 SC 447, State of Harayana & Ors. vs. Bhajan Lal and Ors. 1992 Supp. (1) SCC 335 and Parabatbhai Ahir & Ors. Vs. State of Gujrat AIR 2017 SC 4843, Sav. Kamal Shivaji Pokernaker Vs. State of Maharashtra AIR (2019) SC 847 after discussing the nature and scope of power of High Court U/s 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure (code), has held that the High Court can exercise the inherent powers provided under Section 482 of the Code only to prevent the misuse of the process of any Court or to secure the ends of justice and this power can only be exercised when no other specific remedy is available to the applicant under the provision of the Code. It has also been established that no interference is required with the order passed by the Magistrate under Section 190 of Code, regarding taking the cognizance of the offence or u/S 204 of the Code regarding the summoning of accused, if prima-facie offence is made out from consideration of material available on record. At this stage, merit of the case or truthfulness of the material on record cannot be adjudged.
From perusal of the material on record and looking into the facts and circumstances of the case, it cannot be said at this stage that no cognizable offence is made out against the applicants. All the submissions made by the learned counsel for the applicants relate to disputed question of fact which cannot be adjudged at this stage. At this stage, only prima-facie case is to be seen in the light of law laid down by the Apex Court in above mentioned cases. Accordingly, in view of the above the prayer for quashing the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No. 2012 of 2016, (Nirog Chandra Vs. Rajesh Kumar and Ors.) pending before the lower court is refused.
However, it is provided that if the applicants appear or surrender before the Court concerned within thirty days from today and apply for bail in the aforesaid case, their prayer for bail shall be considered same day by the court below in accordance with law.
With aforesaid direction /observation, the instant application finally stands disposed off.
Order Date :- 18.12.2019 Vandana