High Courts Should Discourage Direct Filing of Anticipatory Bail Pleas, Direct Parties to Approach Sessions Court First: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India has once again cautioned High Courts against the practice of directly entertaining anticipatory bail applications. The bench, comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, emphasized that litigants should ordinarily be directed to first approach the Sessions Court before invoking the High Court’s concurrent jurisdiction under the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (now Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023). Background of the Case Involving Murder of a…