Kishan Lal Verma vs. The State Of Chhattisgarh

ITEM NO.10 COURT NO.8 SECTION II-C

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 703/2025

[Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 07-01-2025 in MCRC No. 6037/2024 passed by the High Court of Chhatisgarh at Bilaspur]

AMIT KUMAR AGRAWAL Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Respondent(s) WITH SLP(Crl) No. 1909/2025 (II-C) FOR ADMISSION SLP(Crl) No. 1993/2025 (II-C) FOR ADMISSION and I.R.

Date : 03-03-2025 These petitions were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. SUNDRESH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL

For Petitioner(s) Mr. Siddharth Agrawal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sameer Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Gagan Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Yashika Varshney, Adv. Ms. Palak Mathur, Adv. Dr. Sangeeta Verma, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Tushar Giri, Adv. Mr. Sahil Bhalaik, AOR Mr. Gagan Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Anil Khanna, Adv. Mr. Ritik Arora, Adv. Mr. Shivam Mishra, Adv. Ms. Gulshan Jahan, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Apoorv Shukla, AOR Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Digitally signed by ASHA SUNDRIYAL Date: 2025.03.05 17:32:51 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

Learned counsel appearing for the respondents prays for and is granted three weeks to file the counter affidavits.

Rejoinder affidavit, if any, is to be filed within a period of two weeks thereafter.

It has been brought to our notice that in a petition arising out of same the FIR, being SLP [Crl.] No.2580/2025, a coordinate Bench of this Court on 24.02.2025 has passed the following order:

"Applications for exemption from filing a certified copy of the impugned judgment and exemption from filing official translation are allowed.

The office report records that arising out of the same First Information Report, Special Leave Petitions containing prayer for bail are appearing before two different Benches.

We issue notice.

To be heard along with Special Leave Petition (Criminal)No.2367 of 2025 and other connected matters.

In view of what is stated in the office report, it will be appropriate if all Special Leave Petitions arising out of the orders denying bail in the same First Information Report are listed before the same Bench.

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The Registrar (Judicial) will seek necessary directions in that behalf from Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India on the administrative side."

In view of the above, the Registry is directed to tag the present Special Leave Petition with SLP [Crl.] No.2580/2025, in order to obtain requisite orders from the Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India.

(ASHA SUNDRIYAL) (POONAM VAID) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR