Case brief
What is this about?
Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh; CRM-M-17950-2026; decided 06.04.2026; Sanjay Vashisth, J (oral). Kuldip Singh @ Kalu v State of Punjab. Anticipatory bail sought in FIR No.229 dated 04.09.2022 under Sections 21/22/27-A/29/61/85 NDPS Act, PS Sultanpur Lodhi, District Kapurthala. Petition dismissed because petitioner suppressed that it was his second anticipatory bail petition — first petition CRM-M-30753-2024 dismissed as withdrawn on 15.07.2024 — and paragraph 14 of the petition falsely denied any earlier similar petition; information held misleading. Counsel: Angrej Singh for petitioner; Neeraj Madaan, Sr. DAG, Punjab for the State.
What did the court decide?
The information furnished by the petitioner in the present petition is misleading, as it conceals that the present petition is his second anticipatory bail petition and the first (CRM-M-30753-2024) had already been disposed of as withdrawn, notwithstanding that paragraph 14 of the petition stated that no such similar petition had earlier been filed in this Court or the Supreme Court of India.