CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. 20848 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 20848 of 2025 Bharat Bhushans .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Varun Dev Sharma Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Court No. - 43 HON'BLE SIDDHARTHA VARMA, J. HON'BLE ABDUL SHAHID, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned AGA for the State-respondents. 2. Although, the prayer made in this writ petition is to quash the First Information Report dated 08.08.2025 giving rise to Case Crime No. 0089 of 2025, under Sections 3 and 7 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and Section 7 of Fertilizer (Control) Order, 1985, Police Station - Railway Road, District - Meerut, 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