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Supreme Court:<\/span> In a special leave petition filed against the judgment of Allahabad High Court, wherein the Court rejected a 71-year-old woman application for anticipatory bail in a forgery case, the three-judge bench of Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, JJ.<\/span> took strong exception to the conduct of respondent 2, a practicing advocate, who was found to be evading service in a case pertaining to an FIR lodged at his instance. The FIR alleged forgery of a sale deed dated 21-08-1971, and was registered in 2023, leading to the initiation of criminal proceedings against a 71-year-old woman.<\/p>\n

Taking note of the situation, the Court issued bailable warrants in the sum of ₹10,000 with equal surety to secure the presence of respondent 2 on 08-10-2025, and directed the Commissioner of Police, Lucknow, to execute the same. The Court further made it clear that if the respondent showed reluctance in accepting the notice, his presence would be secured through non-bailable warrants.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the Court directed respondent 2 to show cause as to why exemplary costs should not be imposed upon him for lodging the belated FIR regarding a transaction dating back over five decades.<\/p>\n

The Bench expressed its disappointment with the Allahabad High Court’s decision to reject the petitioner’s application for anticipatory bail, observing that the petitioner, a 71-year-old woman, was neither the seller, purchaser, witness, nor a beneficiary of the impugned sale deed. The Court noted that the High Court’s casual approach in passing the impugned order warranted serious introspection, though it refrained from commenting further at that stage.<\/p>\n

The matter was directed to be listed on 08-10-2025, and in the interim, the arrest of the petitioner was stayed.<\/p>\n

The Court also clarified that no counter affidavit was required from the State. However, the SHO of the police station concerned was directed to produce the original records leading to the registration of FIR and to show cause why the proceedings, prima facie appearing to be an abuse of process of law should not be quashed.<\/p>\n

[Usha Mishra v. State of UP, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 2023<\/a>, decided on 17-09-2025<\/span>]<\/p>\n\n

Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n

For Petitioner(s):<\/span> Mr. Amit Sangwan, Adv., Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, AOR, Ms. Shivangi Singh, Adv., Mr. Ashu Bhindwar, Adv., Mr. Jai Inder Sharma, Adv., Mr. Jay Veer Yadav, Adv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It is quite unfortunate that the Allahabad High Court has illogically turned down the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner who is a 71-year-old woman, and when she is neither seller nor purchaser nor a witness or the beneficiary of the sale deed dated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67512,"featured_media":361202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[89621,89622,2656,89623,54430,3067,43066,5363],"class_list":["post-361196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-1971-forgery-case","tag-71-year-old-woman","tag-advocate","tag-arrest-stay","tag-bailable-warrants","tag-FIR","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\nSC issues bailable warrants against advocate over 1971 forgery case | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court issues bailable warrants against advocate to account for FIR filed in a 1971 forgery case and stays arrest of a 71-year-old woman involved in the matter;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/09\/22\/supreme-court-bailable-warrants-advocate-fir-1971-forgery-stay-arrest-71-year-old\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court issues bailable warrants against Advocate to account for FIR in 1971 Forgery Case; 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