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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 6292 of 2021 Petitioner :- Sachin And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Achyuta Nand Pandey,Anand Prakash Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.
Hon'ble Surya Prakash Kesarwani,J. Hon'ble Piyush Agrawal,J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A.
The instant petition has been filed by the petitioners with the following prayers :-
"(i) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Certiorari quashing the impugned F.I.R. dated 20.04.2021 having Case Crime No. 145/2021, Under Sections 354, 504, 506 IPC, Section 7/58 Protection of Children From Sexual Offence Act, 2012 and section 3(2)(va) SC/ST Act, Police Station Jawan, District Aligarh (Annexure No. 1 to this writ petition).
ii) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the respondent no. 2, not to arrest the petitioners in pursuance of F.I.R. dated 20.04.2021 having Case Crime No. 145/2021, Under Sections 354, 504, 506 IPC, Section 7/58 Protection of Children From Sexual Offence Act, 2012 and section 3(2)(va) SC/ST Act, Police Station Jawan, District Aligarh."
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 petitioners have been wrongly implicated and could not be arrested. Learned counsel for the petitioners has placed reliance on the judgement of this Court dated 28.01.2021 in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No.17732 of 2020 (Vimal Kumar and 3 others vs. State of UP and 3 others). In the said judgement, a coordinate Bench has framed various guidelines to be followed during investigation of offcence under Section 498- A IPC. These guidelines have been framed following the judgement of the Apex Court in different cases.
We have gone through the impugned first information report and we are of the opinion that the guidelines framed by this Court in the above noted judgement are equally applicable to the facts of the instant case.
Accordingly, the instant petition also stands disposed of in terms of judgement dated 28.01.2021 in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No.17732 of 2020 (Vimal Kumar and 3 others vs. State of UP and 3 others).
Order Date :- 19.8.2021 Amit Mishra