Ravindra @ Mantu vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Ravindra @ Mantu vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Application disposed of with a direction to the court concerned: 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; further, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant till three weeks from the date of the order.

Issue for consideration

Whether the cognizance order dated 17.08.2019 and the entire proceedings of Case No.1126/9 of 2019 (State vs. Ravindra @ Mantu and Others), arising out of Case Crime No.113 of 2019 under sections 3/7 of the Essential Commodities Act, should be quashed. +1 more

Ratio / Principle

The application under section 528 BNSS was finally disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that if the applicant surrenders before it within three weeks and applies for bail, his bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with settled law, including the law laid down in Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI.

Key takeaways

It was made clear that till three weeks from the date of the order, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant.ratio¶5

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Saurabh Srivastava, J.; order dated 21.5.2025; Neutral Citation 2025:AHC:85247). Application under section 528 BNSS No. 18283 of 2025 filed by Ravindra @ Mantu sought quashing of the cognizance order dated 17.08.2019 and the entire proceedings of Case No.1126/9 of 2019 (State vs. Ravindra @ Mantu and Others), arising out of Case Crime No.113 of 2019 under sections 3/7 of the Essential Commodities Act, P.S. Babari, District Shamli, pending before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kairana. Learned counsel did not press the application on merits and confined the prayer to a direction that, upon surrender and application for bail, the bail application be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law, including Satender Kumar Antil v. CBI (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825), to which the opposite parties had no objection. The Court finally disposed of the application 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, and clarified that till three weeks from the date of the order no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant.

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:85247

Court No. - 74

Case :- APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 18283 of 2025

Applicant :- Ravindra @ Mantu Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Dev Kumar Yadav,Neeraj Kumar Chaurasiya Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.

Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.

Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. for the State.

This application under section 528 BNSS has been preferred to quash the cognizance order dated 17.08.2019 and the entire proceedings of Case No.1126/9 of 2019 (State vs. Ravindra @ Mantu and Others) arising out of Case Crime No.113 of 2019, under sections 3/7 of Essential Commodities Act, P.S. Babari, District- Shamli, pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kairana, District- Shamli.

At the very outset, learned counsel for the applicant submitted that he is not pressing the application on merits and 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 surrenders before it and apply 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 counsel for opposite parties have no objection.

In view of the aforesaid, the instant application under section 528 BNSS 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 apply 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.

Order Date :- 21.5.2025 Saif

Digitally signed by :- SHAIKH SAIF ABDIN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad