Court No. - 85
Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 16604 of 2021 Applicant :- Sandeep Yadav @ Sandeep Kumar Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Manoj Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Gautam Chowdhary,J.
Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.
This application has been filed with a prayer to to quash the summoning order dated 22.02.2021 passed by Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Sant Kabir Nagar as well as entire proceedings of Special Case No. 116 of 2021 (State Vs. Shivam Yadav and others) arising out of case crime No. 57 of 2020, under section 3(1) of U.P. Gangster Act, P.S. Mahuli, District Sant Kabir Nagar as well as the charesheet dated 26.12.2020.
Counsel for the applicants confines his arguments to the first part of the submission that the summoning order is bereft of application of mind and has been passed on the cyclostyled copy. He thus argues that the summoning order suffers from the vice of non-application of mind and therefore is liable to be set aside on that ground alone. In support of his submission, he placed reliance on the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Megh Nath Gupta & another Vs. State of U.P. and another, 2008 (62) ACC 826 as well as Single Judge judgment and order passed by this Court in the case of Ankit Vs. State of U.P. and another [(2009) (9) ADJ 778] on an Application No. 19647 of 2009 filed under Section 482 CrPC on 15.10.2009. He, thus, argues that the summoning order is liable to be set aside in view of the well settled law of this Court. He also placed before me several orders passed by this Court whereby similar orders have been set aside by this Court and the matters have been remanded before the Trial Court for fresh orders in accordance with law. A perusal of the summoning order impugned in the present proceedings clearly demonstrates that there was no application of mind whatsoever prior to the passing of the summoning order, which has been repelled by this Court in various judgments.
In view of the categorical pronouncements of this Court, the impugned order dated 22.02.2021 passed by Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Sant Kabir Nagar is set aside and the matter is remanded before the Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Sant Kabir Nagar for passing fresh orders of summoning and cognizance if it deems fit.
Consequently, the application is allowed in part and the order dated 22.02.2021 is set aside in terms of the order passed above.
Let a copy of this order be sent to the Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Sant Kabir Nagar for its compliance as stated above.
Order Date :- 24.9.2021 RPD