Court No. - 42 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 13716 of 2010 Petitioner :- [ENTITY] Respondent :- [ENTITY] & Ors. Petitioner Counsel :- [ENTITY] Respondent Counsel :- Govt. Advocate Hon'ble [ENTITY],J.
Hon'ble [ENTITY],J.
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners learned A.G.A. appearing for the State.
The relief sought in this petition is for quashing of the F.I.R. registered at case crime no.192 of 2010, under [SECTION] [ACT], District Auraiya. The Full Bench of this court in [PRECEDENT] reiterated the view taken by the earlier Full Bench in [PRECEDENT] 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 [ENTITY]'s case ([ENTITY] 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 [SECTION] 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 [SECTION] of the [ACT] 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 petition is accordingly dismissed.
However, it is provided that in case the petitioner surrenders and applies for bail before the courts below within fifteen days from today, the same shall be decided by the courts below expeditiously in accordance with the provision of [ACT].
Order Date :- 30.7.2010 Asha