HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. WRIT PETITION No. - 5413 of 2026 Raj Rastogi .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Atul Verma, Vinod Kumar Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Court No. - 9 HON'BLE RAJESH SINGH CHAUHAN, J. HON'BLE DIVESH CHANDRA SAMANT, J. 1. Heard Shri Atul Verma, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Nirmal Kumar Pandey, learned AGA for the State-opposite party Nos. 1 to 3. 2. In view of order proposed to be passed, issuance of notice to opposite party No.4 is dispensed with. 3. By means of the present petition, the petitioner has prayed for following relief:- "(i) To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the First Information Report lodged against the petitioner on 28.03.2026 registered at Crime No. 275 of 2026, U/S-191(2)/115(2)/118(1)/352/351(3)/109(1) B.N.S. (erstwhile 147/323/324/504/506/307 IPC), P.S.-Kotwali Nagar, District-Gonda." 4. After arguing at some length, learned counsel for the petitioner has requested that the petitioner may be permitted to file an anticipatory bail application. 5. Without entering into the merits of the issue, considering the innocuous request of learned counsel for the petitioner, we hereby dispose of this petition with a liberty to the petitioner to move anticipatory bail application within a period of three weeks from today.

CRLP No. 5413 of 2026 2 6. Instant writ petition is accordingly disposed of. (Divesh Chandra Samant,J.) (Rajesh Singh Chauhan,J.) June 3, 2026 Karan Digitally signed by :- KARAN KUMAR RAO High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench