Dismissed¶¶9
Smt. Kishun Kumari v. State of U P and 2 Others
Allahabad HCCRLP/3104/2020
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Kishun Kumari v. State of U.P. — CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 3104 of 2020, decided 20.2.2020 (Pankaj Mithal & Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, JJ.). Quashing of FIR dated 21.11.2019, Case Crime No. 565 of 2019, Sections 8/20/21 N.D.P.S. Act, P.S. Shahpur, Gorakhpur, and protection from arrest sought; petitioner unnamed in FIR but named by girls involved in the offence. Held: allegations constituted a cognizable offence requiring investigation; FIR not quashable in discretionary jurisdiction; writ petition dismissed without prejudice to other legal remedies.
What did the court decide?
The allegations made in the first information report are sufficient to constitute a cognizable offence which requires investigation. ¶¶8