Kaushlesh Kumar Yadav @ Baccha Yadav v. State of U.P. and 3 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ petition dismissed; impugned FIR (Case Crime No. 151 of 2025, Police Station Ganganagar, Commissionerate, Prayagraj) not interfered with; investigation not interdicted at the threshold; Article 226 of the Constitution jurisdiction invoked; petitioner Kaushlesh Kumar Yadav alias Baccha Yadav nominated by co-accused though absent from FIR; counsel claimed the referenced mobile phone number was not the petitioner's; Sections 11 and 13(5), Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act 2024; Sections 112, 318, 318(2) and 318(4), Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023; bench J.J. Munir and Pramod Kumar Srivastava; decided September 18, 2025.
What did the court decide?
Expressing no view on whether the petitioner is guilty or involved, the Court holds that once some material has surfaced against him during investigation, it requires to be probed by the Police; it is therefore not a case where the Court should interdict the investigation at the threshold in exercise of its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution.