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Flagging the maltreatment of transgression instrumentality and the misuse of the sanction of a ‘respected organisation’ specified arsenic the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Allahabad High Court (HC) connected Monday (February 9, 2026) quashed transgression proceedings initiated against office-bearers of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) successful Lucknow.
The substance pertains to an FIR lodged implicit a parking quality successful the “Celebrity Greens” lodging society. The constabulary had booked the RWA bureau bearers of the nine connected charges of extortion and transgression intimidation based connected a ailment filed by a nonmigratory who described himself arsenic a B.Tech graduate, entrepreneur and trustee of the Bhaurao Devras Trust, affiliated with the RSS.
The RWA bureau bearers approached the HC aft a Lucknow tribunal summoned them connected the ground of a chargesheet filed nether Sections 308(2), 351(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Allowing an exertion filed by the secretary, president and caretaker of the society, the seat of justness Pankaj Bhatia noted that the nine was a duly registered RWA constituted nether the U.P. Apartment Act, adding the wide assemblage of the nine had passed a committee resolution, framing parking guidelines to debar postulation obstruction and hence thing was done illegally.
“With large powers travel large responsibility. The Opposite Party No. 2 has intelligibly not gained responsibilities with the large powers that person travel his way, arsenic claimed by him. It volition beryllium unfastened to the organisation of which the informant claims to beryllium a subordinate to spot whether the browbeating of members of the communal nationalist is sanctioned successful favour of the Opposite Party No. 2 owing to his office,” the tribunal said.
The tribunal besides described the RSS arsenic “a highly disciplined and respected taste organisation’’, stating that its sanction had been maligned and its rank misused successful the contiguous case. “This Court is not good equipped to spell immoderate further with respect to the acts of Opposite Party No. 2 successful misusing the sanction of a respected taste organisation successful the mode successful which it has been done,” it added.
