Overview
- The Lucknow Bench granted interim protection to petitioner Akbar Ali and stayed coercive action under the impugned FIR.
- The Superintendent of Police, Bahraich, must file a personal affidavit within two weeks or appear with records at the next hearing on March 16.
- Justices Abdul Moin and Pramod Kumar Srivastava said the FIR reads like a movie script and does not reflect ground realities.
- The court cited the Bhajan Lal precedent, noting that proceedings may be quashed when FIR allegations are absurd or inherently improbable.
- Registered on January 22 at Jarwal Road police station, the FIR invokes BNS Sections 325 and 109(1) along with the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act and the Arms Act, yet records an incident at 10:45 am with lines like “ujala hone wala hai,” “Tum log police se ghir chuke ho,” and “hai goli lag gai.”