CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3112 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 3112 of 2026 Amay Pandey And 3 Others .....Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Ashwini Kumar, Ganesh Shanker Srivastava Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Court No. - 51 HON'BLE MADAN PAL SINGH, J. 1. Heard Sri Ganesh Shanker Srivastava, learned counsel for the appellants, learned A.G.A. for the State, and perused the entire record. Despite service of notice, none has appeared on behalf of opposite party no. 2. 2. This Criminal Appeal under Section 14-A(1) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 has been preferred to quash the summoning order dated 19.07.2025 as well as the entire proceedings of Special Sessions Trial No. 445 of 2021, arising out of Case Crime No. 23 of 2019, under Sections 147, 323, 504 I.P.C. and Section 3(1)(Da) of the SC/ST Act. 3. Learned counsel for the appellants contends that the entire prosecution case is inherently contradictory and has been falsely fabricated due to ulterior motives. It is submitted that the F.I.R. was initially lodged against unknown persons with a vague allegation of assault arising o