CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 4074 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28345-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4074 of 2025 Petitioner :- Anil Saroj @ Rai Sahab And 2 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Jay Kumar Soni,Pramod Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- G.A. Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record. 2. Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report dated 18.03.2025 bearing F.I.R. No.0071 of 2025, under Sections 115(2), 333, 74 of the B.N.S, Police Station Aaspur Devsara, District Pratapgarh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners confines his prayer for issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding Section 41A Cr.P.C.) for the reason that the offences mentioned in the impugned First Information Report carry the sentence of upto 7 years of imprisonment. 4. Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with the direction to the police authorities concerned to follow the mandate of Section 35(3) of