APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. 5928 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD APPLICATION U/S 528 BNSS No. - 5928 of 2026 Sanandan Pandey .....Applicant(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sachchidanand Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Court No. - 77 HON'BLE SAURABH SRIVASTAVA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for applicant and learned AGA for the State. 2. Present application has been preferred with the prayer to quash the entire proceeding of Criminal Case No.5729 of 2024 (State vs. Sanandan Pandey), arising out of Case Crime no.215 of 2022, under Sections 420 and 406 of I.P.C., Police Station-Jogiya Udaipur, District-Siddharth Nagar, as well as charge-sheet dated 22.12.2022 and cognizance/summoning order dated 21.04.2023 passed by Judicial Magistrate, Siddharth Nagar, pending before Judicial Magistrate, Siddharth Nagar. 3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of applicant has challenged the impugned charge sheet along with cognizance/summoning order and entire proceedings of the present case precisely on the ground that Sections 420 and 406 IPC cannot go together in the same breath as per the proposition of law settled by Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of