AJIT PRASAD AND (2) ORS. Vs. STATE OF U.P. & ANOTHER
LAWS(ALL)-2013-1-375
HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
Decided on January 18,2013

Ajit Prasad And (2) Ors. Appellant
VERSUS
State of U.P. and another Respondents

JUDGEMENT

Rajesh Dayal Khare, J. - (1.) LIST revised. None appears for the applicants. Sri C.S. Sinha, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 is present. Heard learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 and learned A.G.A. for the State.
(2.) THE present 482 Cr.P.C. petition has been filed for quashing the charge sheet dated 07.09.2001 arising out of Case Crime No. 121 of 2001 under Sections 406, 420 I.P.C., Police Station Alambagh, District Lucknow as well as for quashing the summoning order dated 26.03.2002 passed by learned IIIrd Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lucknow. It has been averred in the present application under Section 482 Cr.P.C., on behalf of the applicants that no offence against the applicants is disclosed and the present prosecution has been instituted with a malafide intention for the purposes of harassment.
(3.) FROM the perusal of the material on record and looking into the facts of the case at this stage it cannot be said that no offence is made out against the applicants. All the submission made at the bar relates to the disputed question of fact, which cannot be adjudicated upon by this Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. At this stage only prima facie case is to be seen in the light of the law laid down by Supreme Court in cases of R.P. Kapur Vs. State of Punjab, : A.I.R. 1960 S.C. 866, State of Haryana Vs. Bhajan Lal,, 1992 SCC (Cr.) 426, State of Bihar Vs. P.P. Sharma, : 1992 SCC (Cr.) 192 and lastly Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd. Vs. Mohd. Saraful Haq and another (Para -10) : 2005 SCC (Cr.) 283. The disputed defence of the accused cannot be considered at this stage. Moreover, the applicants have got right of discharge under Section 239 or 227 /228 or 245 Cr.P.C. as the case may be through a proper application for the said purpose and they are free to take all the submissions in the said discharge application before the Trial Court.;


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