IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
MANJU RANI CHAUHAN, J.
Kusum Devi & Ors. - Applicants
Versus
State of U.P. & Ors. - Opposite Parties
Application U/S 482 No. 3934 of 2023
Decided On : 20-03-2023
Criminal Procedure Code,1973 - Section 482 – Indian Penal Code,1860 - Section 306 - Quash impugned orders - Suicide by Abettement - Cognizance order - Commit suicide - Issued a cursory - Whether it is appropriate for this Court being Highest Court to exercise its jurisdiction - Held, This Court finds that submissions made by applicants counsel call for adjudication on pure questions of which may adequately be adjudicated upon only by trial court and while doing so even submissions made on points of law can also be more appropriately gone into by trial court in this case - This Court does not deem it proper and therefore cannot be persuaded to have a pre-trial before actual trial begins - Prayer for quashing entire proceedings is refused as court do not see any abuse of Court's process either - Application Dismissed.
JUDGMENT :
1. Instructions passed on by the learned AGA today in the Court, is taken on record.
2. Heard Mr. Prabha Shanker Mishra and Mr. Akash Deep Srivastava, learned counsel for the applicants, Mr. Ved Prakash Shukla, learned counsel for the opposite party no.2, Mr. Pankaj Srivastava, learned A.G.A. for the State as well as perused the entire material available on record.
3. The present 482 Cr.P.C. application has been filed to quash the impugned orders dated 02.09.2022 (summoning) and 18.01.2023 (NBW/82/83 Cr.P.C.) as well as the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No.75 of 2022 (State vs. Kusum Devi and others), arising out of Case Crime No.75 of 2022, under Section 306 I.P.C., Charge sheet No.216 of 2022, Police Station-Naini, District-Prayagraj (Allahabad), pending in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Allahabad.
4. The brief facts as enumerated in the application are as follows:-
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