Keshav Kumar And 2 Others vs State Of U.P. And 3 Others on 7 February, 2024
18. The coordinate bench in the case of Abhishek Kukreti and others v. State of U.P. and others14 has rejected the plea to quash the FIR stemming from Case Crime No.85 of 2023, involving sections 379, 411 IPC along with section 4/21 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, registered at Police Station Nagina Dehat, District Bijnor. The key issue addressed was whether section 22 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 mandates FIR registration solely on the complaint of an authorized person or a private individual can also lodge an FIR when IPC offences are involved. The coordinate bench of this court clarified that there is no legal impediment under section 22 of the MMDR Act for a private individual to file an FIR for IPC offences related to transactions under the MMDR Act. It emphasized that the offences under both the Act's have distinct and different procedural investigative mechanisms.