Court No. - 9

Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 73 of 2023

Petitioner :- Smt. Yashomati (Pashomati In Adhar Card)

Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home

Civil Lko. And Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Karm Veer Yadav

Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.

Hon'ble Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya,J.

Hon'ble Narendra Kumar Johari,J.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.G.A. for

the State.

Under challenge in this petition is the First Information Report

dated 14.12.2022, lodged at Case Crime No.0581 of 2022,

under Sections 3/7 Essential Commodities Act, 1955, Police

Station Purakalander, District Ayodhya.

Learned counsel for the petitioner confines his prayer for

issuing direction to the police authorities to follow the mandate

of Section 41A, Cr.P.C. for the reason that the offences

mentioned in the impugned First Information Report carry the

sentence of upto 7 years of imprisonment.

Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with the direction to

the police authorities concerned to follow the mandate of

Section 41A, Cr.P.C. and also the directions issued by the

Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar Vs. State