...Respondents J U D G M E N T K. VINOD CHANDRAN, J.

Leave granted.

2. The appeals are filed against the impugned orders declining the prayer for quashing of an FIR and rejecting the review filed against the said order. FIR No.0125 of 2022 dated 28.05.2022 was filed under Section 3(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the Act of 1986’) at the Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Bahraich. The High Court, after perusal of the Gang Chart produced as Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by babita pandey Annexure 2, found a number of criminal cases registered Date: 2026.03.20 Reason:

against the three different petitioners, one of whom is before us in the above appeals. It was also noticed that all the petitioners before the High Court were in jail, presumably arrested under the various criminal cases pending against them.

3. Under the Act of 1986 the petitioners were alleged to be members of a gang as defined therein indulging in activities specifically of land grabbing, fraudulent land transactions, extort