SC: Hiding Criminal Past Abuses Judicial Process, Justifies Bail Rejection

• Supreme Court rules concealing criminal background is an abuse of judicial process.
• Such suppression of material facts justifies outright rejection of bail pleas.
• Justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe emphasized no leniency for petitioners withholding criminal history.
• The court dismissed Firoz's bail petition in a murder case for hiding two other criminal cases.
• Failure to disclose past criminal antecedents is sufficient grounds for rejecting bail requests.

Why It Matters: Supreme Court mandates full disclosure of criminal history; concealment leads to bail rejection.