IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
Shamim Ahmed, J.
Krishna Kumar (As Per Fir And The Charge Sheet Krishna Kumar NaayiS) And Others – Applicants
Versus
State Of U.P. Thru.Prin.Secy.Home And Others – Opposite Parties
Application U/S 482 No. - 677 of 2023
Decided On : 24-01-2023
Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 21 – Indian Penal Code, 1860 – Section 363, 366 –Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Section 482, 173, 190 (1), 204 - Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - Section 16, 17 –Offence Punishable –First Information Report – Quashing charge-sheet – Punishment for kidnapping – State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal – Saving of inherent powers of High Court - Kidnapping or abducting a woman to compel her marriage or to cause her defilement – Report of police officer on completion of investigation - Instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C has been filed by applicants with a prayer to quash entire criminal proceedings of State of U.P. Versus Krishna Kumar and other under Section 363, 366 I.P.C. and Sections 16 and 17 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, pending before court and also for quashing of charge-sheet and quashing of summoning order – Held, Court finds and observes that conduct of judicial officers concerned in passing orders on printed proforma by filling up blanks without application of judicial mind is objectionable and deserves to be deprecated – Summoning of an accused in a criminal case is a serious matter and order must reflect that Magistrate had applied his mind to facts as well as law applicable thereto, whereas impugned summoning order was passed in mechanical manner without application of judicial mind and without satisfying himself as to which offence were prima-facie being made out against applicants on basis of allegations made by complainant – Impugned cognizance order passed by learned Magistrate is against settled judicial norms – Ordered Accordingly.
JUDGMENT :
1. Heard Sri Siddharth Shanker Dubey, learned counsel for the applicants as well as Smt Jan Laxmi Tiwari Senanai, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.
2. The instant application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed by the applicants with a prayer to quash the entire criminal proceedings of Case No. 21 of 2019: State of U.P. Versus Krishna Kumar and other under Section 363, 366 I.P.C. and Sections 16 and 17 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, pending before the court of ASJ/POCSO-II Raibareli and also for quashing of the charge-sheet No.101/2019 dated 05.02.2019 and quashing of summoning order dated 08.02.2019.
3. As per the prosecution version of the F.I.R., on 13.11.2018 at 08.40 A.M. the complainant went to drop off his daughter to her school and after the end of school hours, the complainant found out that his daughter did not attend the school that day. The complainant went home and checked his household trunk and found that the daughter had fled with Rs.20,000/- along with her. That complainant’s house is nearby to one neighbour Krishna Kumar Nayi’s house who lives with his son Avinash alias Shivam wife Shrimati, daughter Shivani and second son Abhishek as a family. The complainant states that Avinash alias Shivam was living in some city for purpose of earning his livlihood. Furthermore, as per the allegations levelled by complainant on 13.11.2018 at about 8.40 AM in the morning Shivani and Abhishek dropped off the victim from school to station where accused Avinash alias Shivam was already present, who manipulated the victim in running away with him. Also, it is alleged in the F.I.R. that Krishna Kumar Nayi was connected throughout on the phone and hence Krishna Kumar Nayi mother Shrimati sister Shivani and brother Abhishek all are involved in the said crime.
4. Learned counsel for the applicants further submits that the entire prosecution story is false. No such incident took place and the applicants have been falsely implicated in the present case.
5. Learned counsel for the applicants further submits that before arguing the case on merits, he wants to draw attention of this Court on the charge-sheet dated 05.02.2019 submitted by the Investigating Officer in mechanical manner under Sections 363, 366 I.P.C. and Section 16 and 17 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, copy of the same is filed as Annexure No.1 to the affidavit, whereas he further submits that on the charge-sheet, the learned Magistrate had taken cognizance and passed the summoning order on 08.02.2019. The cognizance was taken on the printed proforma by filling the sections of IPC, dates and number and in the said proforma the learned Magistrate without assigning any reason has summoned the applicants for facing trial. Copy of the cognizance order is also annexed as Annexure No.2 to the affidavit.
6. Learned counsel for the applicants further submits that by the order dated 08.02.2019 cognizance taken by the learned Magistrate on printed proforma without assigning any reason is abuse of process of law and the same was without application of mind and was in a routine manner.
7. Learned counsel for the applicants further submits that after submission of charge sheet and cognizance order on printed proforma, the applicants have been summoned mechanically by order dated 08.02.2019 and the court below while summoning the applicants has materially erred and did not follow the dictum of law as propounded by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in various cases that summoning in criminal case is a serious matter and the court below without dwelling into material and visualizing the case on the touch stone of probability should not summon accused person to face criminal trial. It is further submitted that the court below has not taken into consideration the material placed before the trial court along with charge sheet and, therefore, the trial court has materially erred in summoning the applicant. The court be
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