Filing of bail applications simultaneously before different courts in an experimental manner without disclosure of pendency of other applications, amounts to suppression of material facts, and is not permissible and is to be deprecated which may disentitle the applicant to relief, observed Kerala High Court in Lalachan V M v. State of Kerala [2025:KER:87554].
In the above case at the time of filing the bail application, another bail application filed by the petitioner has been pending before the Special Court. And to avoid such practice the court issued some guidelines as follows
In order to overcome this suppression of facts regarding pending bail applications, the registry of the court should ensure that there will be an undertaking in all the bail applications, stating that no other mail applications filed or pending in any other courts in the district judiciary as on the date of filing of the bail application before the High Court.
Apart from that in case of doubt the registry shall contact the sessions court or Special Court concerned to ensure that no other application is pending in other courts.
