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Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 10672 of 2018 Petitioner :- Shailendra Arya Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Raghuvansh Chandra,Ram Jee Saxena
Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Ramesh Sinha,J. Hon'ble Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.
Heard Sri Ram Jee Saxena, learned counsel for the petitioner,Sri N.K.Verma, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the impugned FIR as well as material brought on record.
The relief sought in this petition is for quashing of the F.I.R. dated 7.4.2018, registered as Case Crime No.87 of 2018, under Section 3/7 Essential Commodities Act, 1955, P.S. Falavada, District Meerut.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case with malafide intention. He further submits that the place where the petitioner is running his fair price shop is a small one and stock in question allotted to his shop were kept at his residence which is opposite to his fair price shop and the same was not inspected. He next argued that the allegation levelled against the petitioner is absolutely false, frivolous and baseless. From a perusal of the FIR, no offence is made out against the petitioner, hence, the same be quashed.
Learned AGA opposed the prayer for quashing of the FIR which discloses cognizable offence and submitted that there is allegation of black marketing against the petitioner and FIR has been lodged after due approval by the District Magistrate.
The Full Bench of this Court in Ajit Singh @ Muraha v. State of U.P. (2006 (56) ACC 433) reiterated the view taken by the earlier Full Bench in Satya Pal v. State of U.P. (2000 Cr.L.J. 569) after considering the various decisions including State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal (AIR 1992 SC 604) 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.
From the perusal of the FIR, prima facie it cannot be said that no cognizable offence is made out. Hence no ground exists for quashing of the F.I.R. or staying the arrest of the petitioner.
The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh-I,J.) (Ramesh Sinha, J.)
Order Date :- 26.4.2018/NS