Steps For Quashing Of FIR

Recently, the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in a Criminal Appeal bearing no. 3831 of 2025 decided on 2^nd September 2025, dealt with an order passed by the Hon'ble High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in application under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. bearing No. 12607 of 2016 by which the petition filed by the appellant seeking to quash the summoning order passed by the Ld. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Allahabad was dismissed. In the said case titled Pradeep Kumar Kesarwani vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. the Apex Court laid down the following steps which should ordinarily determine the veracity of a prayer for quashing, raised by an accused by invoking the power vested in the High Court under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C./ Section 528 of BNSS: