Tejpal Singh @ Teja Vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Tejpal Singh @ Teja Vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Direction to the court concerned that if the applicant surrenders within three weeks and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law; interim protection that no coercive action be taken against him for three weeks.

Issue for consideration

Whether the cognizance order dated 15.12.2023 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 34481 of 2023 arising out of the forest offence should be quashed. +1 more

Ratio / Principle

The application was finally disposed of with a direction that in case the applicant surrenders before the court concerned within a period of three weeks and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law, including the law in Satender Kumar Antil (to which the AGA had no objection). The quashing challenge itself was not adjudicated.

Key takeaways

Till three weeks from the date of the order, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant in the present case.ratio¶¶10

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Court No. 77), Neutral Citation 2025:AHC:123414; Application U/S 482 No. 37089 of 2024; decided 25.7.2025 by Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava, J. Applicant Tejpal Singh @ Teja sought quashing of the cognizance order dated 15.12.2023 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 34481 of 2023 (State Vs. Rajendra and others), CNR No. UPBJ040394822023, arising out of Forest offence H-2 Case/Range Case No. 31/Bijnor/20-21 Bijnor Range; Forest Crime No. 62/Div/20-21, under Sections 26, 63, 65A Indian Forest Act, P.S. Kotwali Shahar, District Bijnor, pending before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bijnor. Counsel confined the prayer to expeditious bail consideration, to which the learned AGA had no objection. Held: application finally disposed of with a direction that if the applicant surrenders within three weeks and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law, including Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825); further directed that till three weeks no coercive action be taken against the applicant. The merits of the quashing challenge were not decided.

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:123414

Court No. - 77

Case :- APPLICATION U/S 482 No. - 37089 of 2024

Applicant :- Tejpal Singh @ Teja Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Sukhendu Pal Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.

Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.

Heard learned counsel for applicant and learned AGA.

The present application has been preferred for seeking quashing of the cognizance order dated 15.12.2023 as well as entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.34481 of 2023 (State Vs. Rajendra and others), CNR No.UPBJ040394822023, arising out of Forest offence H-2 Case/Range Case No.31/Bijnor/20-21 Bijnor Range; Forest Crime No.62/Div/20-21, under Sections 26, 63, 65A Indian Forest Act, P.S. Kotwali Shahar, District Bijnor, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bijnor.

After arguing at some length, learned counsel for applicant confined his prayer only to the extent that the present application may be disposed of finally with a direction to the court concerned that in case applicant surrender before it and applies for bail, his bail application may be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law, including the law laid down in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825) to which learned AGA has no objection.

In view of the aforesaid, the instant application is finally disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicant surrenders before the court concerned within a period of three weeks from today and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law.

However, it is made clear that till three weeks from today, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant herein in the present case.

Order Date :- 25.7.2025 Vivek Kr.

Digitally signed by :- VIVEK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad