CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 21903 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 21903 of 2025 Virendra Yadav .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Harendra Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A., Priyanka Chauhan, Sheel Kumar Ojha Court No. - 42 HON'BLE SIDDHARTHA VARMA, J. HON'BLE ACHAL SACHDEV, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.G.A. for the State and Sri Sheel Kumar Ojha, learned counsel for the respondent no. 4. 2. Although prayer made in this writ petition is to quash the First Information Report registered on 24.08.2025 as Case Crime No. 332 of 2025, under Section 420 I.P.C., Police Station- Jiyanpur, District - Azamgarh, but at the time when the matter is taken up learned counsel for the petitioner confines his relief to grant of protection under Section 41-A Cr.P.C. 3. We have perused the the First Information Report which prima facie discloses 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 Infrastructure