HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 438 CR.P.C. No. - 1200 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.1371 of 2017 under sections 2/3 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, P.S. Ramgaon, district Bahraich. 2.Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned Additional Government Advocate for the State. Notice to respondent No.2 is dispensed with in view of the proposed order. 3.Learned A.G.A. has raised a preliminary objection that instead of filing anticipatory bail application before the Sessions Court, the applicant has directly approached this court. He has relied on a Full Bench judgment of this Court in Ankit Bharti versus State of U.P. and another passed in Anticipatory Bail No.1094 of 2020 and submits that only in exceptional circumstances mentioned therein, anticipatory bail application can be entertained by this court directly. 4.There appears to be no pleading in the bail application to the effect as to what are the exceptional circumstances for entertaining this application directly. 5.In view of the above as also the judgment of this Court in Ankit Bharti's case (supra), this court is not inclined to entertain this application for anticipatory bail. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ghulam Mohammad Kamil Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ranveer Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Home U.P. Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) 6.The application is accordingly dismissed, with liberty to the applicant to approach the court below, as per law. October 29, 2025 kkb/ ABAIL No. 1200 of 2025 2 (Karunesh Singh Pawar,J.) Digitally signed by :- KRISHNA KUMAR BARANWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench