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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7363 of 2018 Petitioner :- Ram Lakshan And 2 Ors.
Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Ors.
Counsel for Petitioner :- Imran Khan,M J Akhtar,Sr. Advocate Shri V.M. Zaidi Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Krishna Pratap Singh,J.
Heard Sri V.M. Zaidi, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri M.J. Akhtar, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri Ashish 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 4.5.2017, registered as case crime no. 330 of 2017, u/s 498-A, 304-B IPC and 3/4 D.P. Act, P.S. Kotwali Padrauna, district Kushi Nagar.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the husband of the deceased was having illicit relationship with the real sister of petitioner no.3 who is the wife of petitioner no.2. When the deceased came to know about the said fact, she committed suicide along with her two minor daughters. The petitioner no.1 who is the Tau of the husband of the deceased was having strain relationship with the family members of the husband of the deceased, hence there was no occasion for him to commit crime and only general allegation has been levelled against the petitioners. The husband of the deceased is already confined in jail.
Learned AGA opposed the prayer for quashing and submitted that so far as deceased is concerned, there is an allegation that she was burnt to death along with her two minor daughters by her husband along with petitioners, hence FIR discloses the cognizable offence against the petitioners.
The Full Bench of this court in Ajit Singh @ Muraha v. State of U.P. and others (2006 (56) ACC 433) reiterated the view taken by the earlier Full Bench in Satya Pal v. State of U.P. and others (2000 Cr.L.J. 569) 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 as laid down by the Apex Court in various decisions including State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal and others (AIR 1992 SC 604) attended with further elaboration that observations and directions contained in Joginder Kumar's case (Joginder Kumar v. State of U.P. and others (1994) 4 SCC 260 contradict extension to the power of the High Court to stay arrest or to quash an F.I.R. under article 226 and the same are intended to be observed in compliance by the Police, the breach whereof, it has been further elaborated, may entail action by way of departmental proceeding or action under the contempt of Court Act. The Full Bench has further held that it is not permissible to appropriate the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the constitution as an alternative to anticipatory bail which is not invocable in the State of U.P. attended with further observation that what is not permissible to do directly cannot be done indirectly.
The learned counsel for the petitioners has not brought forth anything cogent or convincing to manifest that no cognizable offence is disclosed prima facie on the allegations contained in the F.I.R. or that there was any statutory restriction operating on the police to investigate the case.
Having scanned the allegations contained in the F.I.R. the Court is of the view that the allegations in the F.I.R. do disclose commission of cognizable offence and, therefore, no ground is made out warranting interference by this Court. The prayer for quashing the same is refused.
The petition lacks merit and is accordingly, dismissed.
(Krishna Pratap Singh, J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.) Order Date :- 27.3.2018 Gaurav