HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 1429 of 2025 Court No. - 15 HON'BLE KARUNESH SINGH PAWAR, J. 1.The present anticipatory bail application has been filed seeking anticipatory bail in case crime No.0153 of 2025 under section 316(5) BNS, P.S. Mahruwa, district Ambedkar Nagar. 2.Case called out. None appears for the applicant. 3.Heard learned Additional Government Advocate for the State. 3.Learned AGA has raised a preliminary objection regarding maintainability of the anticipatory bail application. It is submitted that the applicant has directly approached before this Court by filing present anticipatory bail application. His case is not covered under exception provided in Full Bench judgment of this court in Ankit Bharti versus State of U.P. and another passed in Anticipatory Bail No.1094 of 2020. 4. I have considered the submission and perused the record. There appears to be no pleading in the bail application as to whether there is any exceptional circumstance for entertaining this anticipatory bail application directly by this court. 5.It has been informed by learned A.G.A. that this case has been passed over on four different dates. It is the fifth occasion that the applicant's counsel has not appeared. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Manoj Kumar Mishra, Anubhav Awasthi, Piyush Tripathi, Vinayak Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sarita Shukla .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) 6.In view of the above as also the judgment of this Court in Ankit Bharti's case (supra), present application for anticipatory bail is not maintainable before this court. The application is accordingly dismissed. The applicant is at liberty to approach the Sessions Court concerned. 7.Let certified copies of the document(s) annexed with the application be returned to applicant's counsel and a copy thereof be retained on the file. November 6, 2025 kkb/ NABAIL No. 1429 of 2025 2 (Karunesh Singh Pawar,J.) Digitally signed by :- KRISHNA KUMAR BARANWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench