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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 13226 of 2025 Court No. - 67 HON'BLE KRISHAN PAHAL, J.
1. List has been revised. 2. Heard Sri Jitendra Singh, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Lavlesh Verma assisted by Sri Phool Chandra Tripathi, learned counsel for the informant as well as Sri Sushil Kumar Shukla, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material placed on record. 3. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No.192 of 2024, under Sections 119(2), 115(2), 351(2), 352 BNS, Police Station-Pailani, District Banda, during the pendency of trial. 4. Despite the learned AGA for the State pointing out certain criminal antecedents of the applicant, the learned counsel for the applicant remained adamant in submitting that the said criminal history stood explained, although the said criminal history has not been explained. The unexplained criminal history is as follows:- i. Case Crime No. 01 of 2016 under Sections 406, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station- Pailani, District-Banda. ii. Case Crime No. 178 of 2017 under Sections 147, 148, 323, 392 I.P.C., Police Station- Pailani, District-Banda. iii. Case Crime No. 106 of 2019 under Sections 323, 342, 504, 506 I.P.C., Police Station- Pailani, District-Banda. 5. The Supreme Court in Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 1400/2025 Munnesh Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh has directed that the petitioners seeking regular bail or anticipatory bail must mandatorily disclose their criminal antecedents. Non-disclosure of criminal history itself could be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : A.K.S.Parihar, Birendra Singh, Jitendra Singh, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Ram Raksha Tiwari Beer Singh @ Beeru Singh .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s)
considered as a ground for dismissal of bail. The Court directed:
“We, accordingly, direct that henceforth each individual who approaches this Court with a Special Leave Petition (Criminal) challenging orders passed by the high courts/ sessions courts declining prayers under Sections 438/439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 or under Sections 482/483, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita shall mandatorily disclose in the 'SYNOPSIS' that either he is a man of clean antecedents or if he has knowledge of his involvement in any criminal case, he shall clearly indicate the same together with the stage that the proceedings, arising out of such case, have reached.
Should the disclosure be found to be incorrect subsequently, that itself could be considered as a ground for dismissal of the special leave petition.”
6. In light of judgment of Supreme Court as above, instant bail applicant is dismissed. September 18, 2025 Karan BAIL No. 13226 of 2025 2 (Krishan Pahal,J.) Digitally signed by :- KARAN KUMAR RAO High Court of Judicature at Allahabad