Court No. - 52
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 12197 of 2021 Petitioner :- Rambabu Yadav And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Through Secretary Home And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Arun Kumar Bajpai Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A. for State respondents.
This writ petition has been filed for quashing the impugned First Information Report dated 22.11.2021 in Case Crime No. 155 of 2021, under Sections 354, 452, 323, 504, 506 I.P.C and Section 3(1)Da, 3(1)Dha, 3(2)(Va) of S.C./S.T. Act, P.S. Chandpur, District Fatehpur.
The submission is that all alleged offences are punishable with imprisonment of seven years, therefore, the police authorities are bound to follow the procedure laid down under Section 41- A Cr.P.C. The petitioner has been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Reliance has been placed on the judgment of Apex Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273 and Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar Vs. Union of India, Ministry of Law and Justice and others in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 73 of 2015 with Criminal Appeal No. 1265 of 2017 Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 156 of 2017 and Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Vimal Kumar & 3 Others Vs. State of U.P. & 3 Others, 2021 (2) ACR 1147.
We have gone through the impugned first information report and we are of the opinion that the guidelines framed by the Apex Court in the above noted judgment are equally applicable to the facts of the instance case.
Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of the judgments noted above.
Order Date :- 16.12.2021 Lalit Shukla Digitally signed by VIVEK KUMAR BIRLA Date: 2021.12.17 12:51:46 IST Reason: Document Owner Location: High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by SHREE PRAKASH SINGH Date: 2021.12.17 12:52:34 IST Reason: Document Owner Location: High Court of Judicature at Allahabad