CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 4109 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28725-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 4109 of 2025 Petitioner :- Santosh Kumar And Another Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home, Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Alok Kumar Mishra,Anjali Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.,Chandan Srivastava,Ritika Singh,Yogesh Somvanshi Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. In view of the order proposed to be passed in this petition, issuance of notice to the opposite party no. 4 is dispensed with. 3. This petition seeks issuance of a direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned F.I.R. dated 4.5.2025 registered as Case Crime/F.I.R. No. 0216 of 2025 under Section 306 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, police station Kotwali Ayodhya, district Ayodhya. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the offences as alleged in the F.I.R. have maximum punishment for the term less than seven years imprisonment whereas the police is trying to arrest them, which is against the mandate of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha S