CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 7053 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:54964-DB Court No. - 42 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 7053 of 2025 Petitioner :- Anwar Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ashish Dwivedi Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J. Hon'ble Prashant Kumar,J. 1. Heard Sri Ashish Dwivedi, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.A. for the State, and perused the record. 2. Although the prayer made in this writ petition is to quash the F.I.R. dated 21.03.2025, registered as Case Crime No. 121 of 2025, under Section 3/7 of the E.C. Act, Police Station Bhuta, District Bareilly, when the matter was taken up, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the offence complained of is punishable with imprisonment for a term up to seven years and, therefore, before effecting the arrest of the petitioner, the specific provisions contained in Section 41(1)(b) and Section 41-A of the Cr.P.C./Section 35(3) to 35(7) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, be strictly complied with in view of the law laid down by the Hon’ble Apex Court in several judgments. 3. We have perused the FIR, which prima facie discloses cognizable offenc