CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 14643 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:111407-DB Court No. - 43 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 14643 of 2025 Petitioner :- Santosh Kumar Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Surendra Yadav Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Siddhartha Varma,J. Hon'ble Madan Pal Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, AGA for the State and perused the record. 2. Although, the prayer made in this writ petition is to quash the First Information Report dated 20.06.2025 giving rise to Case Crime No.0133 of 2025, under Sections- 3, 7 of Essential Commodities Act, Police Station - Jansa, Gomti Commissionerate, District Varanasi but at the time when the matter is taken up learned counsel for the petitioner confines his relief to grant of protection under section 35 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. 3. We have perused the the First Information Report, which prima facie discloses commissioning of cognizable offence and, therefore, the prayer made to quash F.I.R. otherwise cannot be entertained in view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of State of Telangana Vs. Habib Abdullah Jellani, (2017) 2 SCC 779 and Neeharika Infrastruct