Consider rules mandating listing of criminal cases in bail plea
SC to HCs
This story was originally published at 18:38 IST on 18 July 2025
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NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court on Friday asked the high courts to consider rules mandating the petitioners to specify in their bail petitions whether they were involved in any other criminal case. Further, the petitioners should state in their bail applications whether a similar plea was made to the top court, said the bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta.
"We feel that every high court in the country should consider incorporating a similar provision in the respective high court rules and/or criminal side rules as it would impose an obligation on the accused to make disclosures regarding his/her involvement in any other criminal case(s) previously registered," said the bench.
The top court was hearing an appeal by a Kaushal Singh, a judicial officer in Rajasthan over strictures passed against him by the Rajasthan High Court, while deciding a bail application of an accused. The high court had said that Singh had not considered the accused's criminal antecedent while giving him bail "in a grossly inappropriate and cavalier manner". Singh's act "tantamounted to indiscipline, negligence and so also, ignorance and disobedience of the orders/judgments passed by the high court(on bail pleas)," said the high court.
The top court said that the strictures and scathing observations were made by the high court to the detriment of the judicial officer without providing Singh any opportunity of explanation. "...we are of the firm opinion that the strictures passed by the High Court against the appellant-Judicial Officer were uncalled for and hence, the same are expunged," said the bench. End
Reported by Surya Tripathi
Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury
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