Rajdeep and Another Vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Rajdeep and Another Vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Quashing prayer refused; application disposed of with liberty to the applicants to surrender before the court concerned within four weeks and apply for bail, their bail application to be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with the law laid down in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825); no coercive action against the applicants till four weeks from the date of the order.

Issue for consideration

Whether the chargesheet dated 08.08.2024, the cognizance/summoning order dated 04.06.2025 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 21556 of 2025, arising out of Case Crime No. 379 of 2024, ought to be quashed under Section 528 BNSS. +1 more

Court's answer

On perusal of the narration of the FIR, the impugned order, the chargesheet and the entire material on record, the Court found this not to be a case requiring its interference, and no ground appeared available in the application on which the impugned order, chargesheet and entire proceedings could be set aside.

Ratio / Principle

The prayer sought through the instant application was refused.

Key takeaways

The application was finally disposed of with a direction that if the applicants surrender before the court concerned within four weeks and apply for bail, their bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with the law laid down in Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825); the learned AGA had no objection to such liberty being granted.ratio¶12
Till four weeks from the date of the order, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicants in pursuance of the aforesaid case.ratio¶13

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Allahabad High Court (Saurabh Srivastava, J.; order dated October 10, 2025) disposed of an application under Section 528 BNSS (No. 32282 of 2025) filed by Rajdeep and another seeking quashing of the chargesheet dated 08.08.2024, the cognizance/summoning order dated 04.06.2025 and the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 21556 of 2025 (State Vs. Rajdeep and another), arising out of Case Crime No. 379 of 2024 under Sections 308, 352, 323, 504, 506 IPC, P.S. Uttar, District Firozabad, pending before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Firozabad. Perusing the FIR narration, impugned order, chargesheet and record, the Court found no case for interference and no ground to set aside the proceedings, and refused the prayer. The application was disposed of with liberty to the applicants to surrender within four weeks and apply for bail, the bail application to be decided expeditiously in accordance with Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825), and it was directed that no coercive action be taken against the applicants till four weeks from the date of the order.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 32282 of 2025

Rajdeep And Another	.....Applicant(s)
Versus
State of U.P. and Another	.....Opposite Party(s)
Counsel for Applicant(s) : Akhilendra Chaturvedi	Yadav, Mayank
Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A.
Court No.- 77

HON'BLE SAURABH SRIVASTAVA, J.

Heard learned counsel for applicants and learned AGA appearing for the State.

This present application has been filed for seeking quashing of chargesheet dated 08.08.2024 along with cognizance/summoning order dated 04.06.2025 and entire proceeding of Criminal Case No.21556 of 2025 (State Vs. Rajdeep and another), arising out of Case Crime No.379 of 2024, under Sections 308, 352, 323, 504, 506 IPC, P.S. Uttar, District Firozabad, pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Firozabad.

On perusal of the narration of FIR as well as impugned order and chargesheet along with entire material available on record, this Court does not find it to be a case where interference of this Court is required. No such ground appears to be available in the present application, on the basis of which, impugned order along with chargesheet and entire proceedings of the said case, can be set aside.

Accordingly, the prayer sought through the instant application, is refused.

Lastly, learned counsel for applicants has submitted that liberty may be granted to applicants to surrender before the court concerned and apply for bail to which learned AGA has no

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objection.

In view of the aforesaid, the instant application is finally disposed of with a direction to the court concerned that in case, the applicants surrender before the court concerned within a period of four weeks from today and apply for bail, their bail application shall be considered and decided expeditiously in accordance with law laid down in the case of Satender Kumar Antil Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another (2022 SCC OnLine SC 825).

However, it is made clear that till four weeks from today, no coercive action shall be taken against applicants herein in pursuance of aforesaid case.

October 10, 2025 Vivek Kr.

(Saurabh Srivastava,J.)

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