The Supreme Courtroom immediately(December 8) quashed a felony case in opposition to a person in Uttar Pradesh on discovering that it was falsely lodged in opposition to him after he was proposing to provoke authorized motion over an audio clip during which the then Superintendent of Police, Bijnor, was allegedly heard making objectionable feedback in opposition to Muslims.
The bench comprising Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice Okay Vinod Chandran impleaded the DIG Sanjeev Tyagi(then SP Bijnor) as a celebration and directed him to provide his voice pattern to the State FSL Laboratory, Telangana, together with the alleged audio clip for verification.
The case arose through the COVID-19 pandemic. As per the petitioner, Islamuddin Ansari, in March 2020, he had forwarded an audio clip of the then SP Bijnor to the SP himself to verify if he was the speaker of the derogatory language used in opposition to the Muslim neighborhood. Following that, an FIR was registered in opposition to the petitioner for allegedly spreading rumours with the intent to incite emotions of enmity in opposition to the Muslim neighborhood beneath Part 505 IPC and Part 67 IT Act. A chargesheet was filed within the FIR of which cognisance was taken by the Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace in 2021. After the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom refused to quash the case in opposition to the petitioner, he approached the Supreme Courtroom.
Final Friday, the Supreme Courtroom expressed grave concern in regards to the matter and put sharp questions on the State. Following that, immediately, the Counsel for the State of Uttar Pradesh knowledgeable the bench that the State has filed a petition earlier than the Courtroom involved in search of withdrawal of the case in opposition to the petitioner. The Counsel added that he doesn’t need to make submissions on what has occurred within the case.
Nonetheless, Justice Amanullah questioned how the case was maintainable on the first occasion. He remarked that the lodging of the FIR was an abuse of the authority of legislation. He additionally requested why no verification of the audio was achieved.
“If in case you have stated these issues, you’ll have to be accountable to the system. We requested you to take directions and that’s the reason we didn’t implead him. We had requested you and the IO has by no means known as you! Your voice has gone viral, you’ll not give a voice pattern?,” Justice Amanullah remarked.
Accordingly, the Courtroom handed an order for quashing the FIR registered on the police station Kotwali Shahar, Bijnor: “Having regard to the aforesaid, we discover it to be completely an abuse of their authority and likewise the method of the Courtroom by the Police in initiating the proceedings. Accordingly, all the proceedings of Felony Case No.6196 of 2021 arising out of Case Crime No.0171 of 2020, P.S. Kotwali Shahar, District Bijnor stand quashed.”
As for the verification of the audio, Justice Amanullah remarked that no reply was provided to the petitioner when he had requested if the voice presupposed to be was of the then SP Bijnor.
Stating that the petitioner had rightly requested for the then SP, the Courtroom noticed:
“Nonetheless, we’re extra involved with the background during which such a scenario arose. The petitioner having requested the Superintendent of Police and rightly so, earlier than making a proper criticism, as as to whether, the voice presupposed to be his, disclosing that he had used some very objectionable language was, by no means replied to, we direct that the voice pattern of the then Superintendence of Police- Mr. Sanjeev Tyagi, who has been promoted and at the moment posted at DIG, Basti Vary, Uttar Pradesh, for being confirmed with the clip which was forwarded to him, by the petitioner, be despatched for examination. The stated FSL examination can be achieved on the State FSL Laboratory, within the State of Telangana, Hyderabad.”
The Courtroom has additionally impleaded Telangana Forensic Sciences Laboratories, via its Director, as Respondent 3.
“The Director shall get the examination achieved beneath his direct supervision. He shall be personally liable for guaranteeing that the check is completed by competent individuals of confirmed, integrity and the train is uninfluenced by any individual/authority/extraneous consideration. The Director shall submit the report back to this Courtroom in a sealed cowl newest by thirty first of January, 2026.”
It added that if any try is made by authorities to harass or exert stress on the petitioner, he’s at liberty to maneuver an acceptable utility within the current case itself.
The matter will now be heard on January 12, 3:30 pm.
Case Particulars: ISLAMUDDIN ANSARI Vs STATE OF U.P.|SLP(Crl) No. 14997/2025
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Appearances: For Petitioner(s) Mr. Aadil Singh Boparai, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Dubey, Adv. Ms. Prakruthi Jain, Adv. Mrs. Shurti Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Amarjeet Singh, AOR Mr. Satvinder Singh, Adv.
For Respondent(s) Mr. Abhishek Saket, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Kumar, AOR Ms. Manisha, Adv. Ms. Rupali, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Singh, Adv.
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