CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 278 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 278 of 2026 Sandeep Kumar Patel And Another .....Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Harendra Prakash Dwivedi Counsel for Respondent(s) : Ganesh Kumar, G.A. Court No. - 51 HON'BLE MADAN PAL SINGH, J. 1. Heard Sri Harendra Prakash Dwivedi, learned counsel for the appellants, Sri Ganesh Kumar, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2, and learned A.G.A. for the State. Perused the entire 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 for quashing Charge-Sheet No. 138 of 2023 dated 20.05.2023 as well as the cognizance/summoning order dated 05.08.2025 passed in SST No. 836 of 2025 (State vs. Sandeep Kumar Patel & Others), arising out of Case Crime No. 203 of 2023, under Sections 323, 504 and 506 IPC and Section 3(2)(va) of the SC/ST Act, Police Station Mauaima, District Prayagraj. 3. The facts of the present case in brief are that on 25.04.2023 at about 7:30 a.m., while the complainant was sitting outside her house, the dog belonging to accused Sandeep Kumar Patel su