The Allahabad High Court has stayed the non-bailable warrant issued against Dinesh Kumar alias Suryakant, son of former MP Umakant Yadav.
The High Court stayed the attachment proceedings issued against him by the Special Court Prayagraj, gave him time to appear in the court and file a bail application.
A Single Bench of Justice Rajiv Gupta passed this order, while hearing an application under Section 482 CrPC filed by Dinesh Kumar.
The application under Section 482 CrPC has been filed with the prayer to quash the non-bailable warrant (NBW) dated October 4, 2021 issued by Special Judge, MP/MLA Court, Allahabad in a case (State vs Dinesh and others), registered under Sections 419 and 420 IPC at Police Station Shahganj, District Jaunpur.
The Court observed that from perusal of the record, it transpires that on account of failure of the applicants to appear before the court below, a non- bailable warrant has been issued against them on October 4, 2021.
The Counsel for the applicants prayed that the interest of justice shall be served, provided some protection is granted by the Court to enable the applicants to appear before the court below and seek bail.
Considering the aforesaid facts and due to recent spike in number of cases of Covid-19, the Court provided that the applicants shall appear before the court concerned within three weeks from today and move an application for bail and the same be considered and disposed of expeditiously in accordance with law.
“For a period of three weeks from today, the execution of non-bailable warrant issued against the applicants shall remain stayed.
“In case of default, the interim protection granted by the Court shall stand automatically vacated and the court below shall be free to proceed against the applicants in accordance with law. With the aforesaid direction, this application under Section 482 CrPC is finally disposed of,” the Court ordered.