Allahabad High Court: While deciding an application for quashing the charge sheet, Om Prakash-VII, J., disposed of the same finding it difficult to conclude that the offences levelled against the applicant are not made out.
The present application has been filed by the applicant pleading the Court for quashing the charge sheet as well as the entire proceedings in Case No.160 of 2020 in connection with the FIR registered for offence punishable under Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pending before the Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saidpur, Ghazipur. The applicant has also requested for a stay on any further proceedings in the aforesaid case.
Counsel for the applicant, Shashank Kumar has submitted that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the said case and that the charge sheet has been submitted on the basis of insufficient evidence. It is also contended that the present prosecution has been instituted with malafide intention.
Counsel for the respondent has vehemently objected to the present application and the relief sought.
Upon careful perusal of the facts, circumstances and arguments advanced by both the parties, the Court observed that all the submissions made by the applicant are directed towards the disputed questions of fact which cannot be adjudicated by the Court under section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.
With respect to the question of law, there is a well-settled position of law through a string of judgments delivered by the Supreme Court in the cases of R.P. Kapur v. State of Punjab, AIR 1960 SC 866, State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal, 1992 Supp (1) SCC 335, State of Bihar v. P. P. Sharma, 1992 Supp (1) SCC 222 and Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. v. Mohd. Saraful Haq, (2005) 1 SCC 122. The materials on record are sufficient to help in arriving at the conclusion that it cannot be said that the offences levelled against the applicant are not made out.
Later counsel for the applicant prayed for expeditious disposal of the applicant’s bail application.
In view of the above, the Court disposed the application with the direction that in case applicant surrenders before the Court below and applies for bail within two months from the date of present order, the same shall be considered and decided in view of the settled law. For a period of two months, no coercive action shall be taken against the applicant.[Ram Milan Yadav v. State of U.P., Application u/s 482 No. 13647 of 2020, decided on 28-09-2020]
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