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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea seeking the quashing of a case and charge sheet filed under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters Act.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea for the quashing of a case and charge sheet filed under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters Act.
New Delhi, The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition challenging an order of the Allahabad High Court, which had dismissed an application seeking the quashing of a charge sheet and proceedings in a case lodged under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities Act, 1986.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Sanjay Kumar sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea filed by petitioner Raj Khan. Khan was named in an FIR lodged under the provisions of the UP Gangsters Act in Pilibhit district.
"The impugned order of the high court dismissing the petitioner's application under section 482 CrPC is causing immense hardship and injustice to the petitioner as his freedom of life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India has been restrained," said the plea, filed through advocate Tanvi Dubey.
It alleged that the FIR under the UP Gangsters Act has been registered merely on the basis of an earlier FIR, which was a total abuse of the process of law.
The plea stated that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents other than the alleged case and invoking the Gangsters Act against him was not only causing prejudice but would lead to "serious misuse of the police and judicial machinery purely for personal vendetta".
"The filing of the impugned charge sheet and initiation of proceedings against the petitioner is prima facie malicious with ulterior motives for wreaking vengeance upon the petitioner due to personal grudge and his lodging a complaint with the chairman, Sunni Central Waqf Board, Uttar Pradesh, regarding financial irregularities and misdeeds...," it said.
The plea urged the apex court to quash the charge sheet and the entire proceedings of the case.
"The high court failed to consider that the petitioner, who is an innocent citizen, has fallen prey to the hands of miscreants for raising his voice against the fraud, misdeeds, and misuse of the income generated from the Waqf properties," it claimed.
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