HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 2962 of 2026 Mohd. Faizan (In Fir Faizan Ahmad) And Others .....Petitioner(s)

Versus State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Others .....Respondent(s)

Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A.

Court No. - 11 HON'BLE ABDUL MOIN, J.

HON'BLE PRAMOD KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned AGA for respondents no.1 to 3.

2. Issue notice to respondent no.4. Steps be taken within a week.

3. Instant petition has been filed praying for quashing of the FIR bearing no.0066/2026 under Sections 87, 69, 351(3) of B.N.S. 2023 and Sections 3 & 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Bahraich.

4. From perusal of the allegations as levelled in the impugned FIR it emerges that the respondent no.4 has lodged the said FIR by contending that his daughter has been enticed away by the petitioner no.3 with the assistance of other petitioners. It has been alleged that there is every likelihood of the petitioners trying to change the religion of the complainant's daughter and