The applicant, B. Venkateswarlu, a former Head of Department, filed an application under Section 528 BNSS before the Allahabad High Court seeking to quash the charge sheet dated 30.9.2025, the summoning order dated 3.11.2025, and all related proceedings arising from Case Crime No. 287 of 2025 under Sections 126(2), 109, and 61(2) BNS, Police Station Lanka, Varanasi. The prosecution alleged that the applicant, motivated by departmental rivalry, conspired with others to have the informant (who had replaced him as HOD) physically attacked, causing fractures in both hands. The applicant's primary contention was that the entire case against him rested solely on the police-recorded confessional statement of co-accused B. Bhaskar, with no other corroborating material, and that such a confession is inadmissible under Section 25 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and cannot by itself sustain a criminal prosecution. The court examined the legal question of whether a criminal prosecution can continue solely on the basis of a police-recorded confessional statement of a co-accused, relying on Supreme Court precedents including Karan Talwar vs. State of Tamil Nadu (2024 SCC Online SC 3803) and Dipakbhai Jagdischandra Patel vs. State of Gujarat (2019) 16 SCC 547, which held that such a confession cannot constitute substantive evidence against a co-accused. The judgment text as provided does not record a final operative order, as it appears to be truncated before the court's ultimate decision.