CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1242 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 1242 of 2026 Irfan Khan Urf Banti And Another .....Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Shahid Ali Siddiqui Counsel for Respondent(s) : Arvind Kumar, Dhruva Dixit, G.A. Court No. - 51 HON'BLE MADAN PAL SINGH, J. 1. Heard Sri Shahid Ali Siddiqui, learned counsel for the appellants, Sri A.K. Dixit, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2, learned A.G.A. for the State, and perused the record. 2. This criminal appeal under Section 14-A(1) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 has been preferred seeking to allow the appeal and to quash the entire proceedings as well as the impugned cognizance/summoning order dated 26.11.2025 passed by the Special Judge (SC/ST Act), Auraiya in Sessions Trial No. 1365 of 2025 (State vs. Irfan Khan & Ors.), arising out of Case Crime No. 0498 of 2025, under Sections 115(2), 352, 351(2) of the B.N.S. and Sections 3(1)(da), 3(1)(dha), 3(2)(va) of the SC/ST Act, Police Station Ajeetmal, District Auraiya. 3. Learned counsel for the appellants submits that the impugned cognizance and summoning order d