IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
SADHNA RANI (THAKUR), J.
Sanjeev Sahu and Others – Appellants
Versus
State of U.P. and Another – Respondents
Application U/s 482 No. 46541 of 2018
Decided On : 28-02-2023
Indian Penal Code, 1860 – Sections 354, 354B, 452, 504, 506, 323, 384, 120B, 316, 387, 389, 500, 511, 507 – Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Section 156, 202, 200, 482, 156 – Protection of Children Sexual Offence Act, 1895 – Section 7, 8 – Sexual inhent touches – Sexual Harassment – Jurisdiction – Learned counsel applicants learned counsel for opposite party perused record application seek to invoke inherent jurisdiction of this court to quash summoning order – Held, Court has no jurisdiction to hear case against summoning order concerned impugned order has been passed by judgment of coordinate bench of court found that when in a case offences arising out of same crime and may be tried at Special Court of POCSO would have jurisdiction – Court opinion argument of learned counsel for opposite this regard is not tenable – Application allowed.
JUDGMENT :
SADHNA RANI (THAKUR), J.
1. Heard Sri Rajiv Lochan Shukla, learned counsel for the applicants and Sri Arun Pandey, learned counsel for the opposite party no. 2 and perused the record.
2. By moving this application under Section 482 Cr.P.C. the applicants seek to invoke the inherent jurisdiction of this court to quash the summoning order dated 29.11.2018 passed by the Special Judge, POCSO Act/Additional Sessions Judge, Court No. 6, Ghaziabad and the entire proceedings of Complaint Case No. 77 of 2018 (X Kumari vs. Sanjeev Sahu and Others) whereby the applicants have been summoned to face the trial under Sections 354, 354B, 452, 504, 506 IPC, Section 7/8 POCSO Act and Section 3 of SC/ST Act, Police Station Indrapuram, District Ghaziabad.
3. As per facts of the case, an application under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. was filed by the minor X Kumari on 01.10.2018 with the allegation that her parents do the work of ironing the clothes since last 17 years in Vartalok Apartment. They also do the work of washing the vehicles in the society. All the opposite parties (present applicants) have an evil eye on the applicant and her mother. The applicant and her mother have been misbehaved and molested many times at the hands of these persons, but because of the intervention of other people of the society, no complaint was made against them. They also used to eve tease them and on their protest they are given threat to turn out from the society. On 23.09.2018 (Sunday) at about 5.00 p.m. when her mother was doing iron on the clothes and she was studying sitting near her mother, all the five persons namely, Sanjeev Sahu, Dushyant Singh, Harish Chand Joshi, Mohan Lal and Uday Narayan, Dushyant using caste based words made sexual connotations, Harish Chand Joshi also made the same remarks against her, Uday Narayan caught hold of her, took her in the adjacent tin shed and torn her shirt. All the rest persons (opposite parties/the applicants) also came. Sanjeev Sahu caught hold of her hands and Mohan Lal caught hold of her legs. She was disrobed. She was crying but they were not ready to hear anything. As soon as Harish Chand Joshi entered his penis into her vagina, immediately on the hue and cry of the applicant and her mother, Shilpi Gupta and Sandeep Gupta, the residents of the same society and many other persons came, seeing them opposite parties made good their escape. After some time they again came, abused the applicant and her parents, destroyed the tin shed and other articles kept there. The police also came on the spot, but forcibly got written a different application from her. One policeman, Sachin Malik gave her threat also. On 25.09.2018, she sent a complaint to the S.S.P., but no case could be registered, hence, the prayer was made to issue a direction for lodging the FIR.
4. After summoning a police report on this application, the trial court registered this application as a complaint and after recording the statements of the victim under Section 200 Cr.P.C. and witness Shilpi Gupta under Section 202 Cr.P.C. by passing the impugned order dated 29.11.2018 summoned all the above five applicants to face the trial under Sections 354, 354B, 452, 504, 506 IPC, Section 7/8 POCSO Act and Section 3 of SC/ST Act.
5. With the prayer of quashing this summoning order and the entire proceedings of the complaint above, the present application has been moved by the applicants and in the supporting affidavit it is alleged that though the case is sessions triable, even then the whole witness list of the complainant was not exhausted by the trial court. The statement of the complainant was noted by the reader of the court, while as per the circular letters issued by this court time to time, it must be noted down by the Presiding Officer himself. There is overwriting on the date of incident in the statement of the witness Shilpi Gupta. The whole premises including the spot in question is covered with CCTV cameras. No CCTV footage was placed before the
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