CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 20644 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 20644 of 2025 Chitranjan Kumar .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Arvind Prabodh Dubey, Naushad Alam Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 43 HON'BLE SIDDHARTHA VARMA, J. HON'BLE ABDUL SHAHID, J. Crl. Misc. Exemption Application No. 1 of 2025. The requirement of filing the certified copy of the FIR is exempted. The application is, accordingly, disposed of. Order on petition. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned AGA for the State. 2. Although, the prayer made in this writ petition is to quash the First Information Report dated 9.8.2025 giving rise to Case Crime No. 0211 of 2025, under Sections 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Police Station Asmauli, District Sambhal, 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. ot