Pankaj Tripathi and 2 Others v. State of U.P. and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court (Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:37757; Sanjay Kumar Pachori, J.; delivered 12.03.2025) dismissed a Section 482 Cr.P.C. application challenging the order dated 27.09.2024 by which the ACJM, Court No. 5, Prayagraj, in Criminal Case No. 863 of 2020 (Case Crime No. 241 of 2020, PS Tharwai, Prayagraj) treated the police-report case under Sections 323, 504 IPC as a complaint, following the co-ordinate Bench order dated 05.03.2024 quashing the earlier cognizance dated 26.11.2020 on the ground that Sections 323, 504, 506 IPC are non-cognizable. Keywords: quashing; cognizance; non-cognizable offence; treatment as complaint; second cognizance; FIR 25.07.2020; charge-sheet 26.08.2020.
What did the court decide?
The present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. deserves no merit and is liable to be dismissed, and accordingly stands dismissed; the order dated 27.09.2024 treating the case as complaint is not disturbed.