Supreme Court of India

Pinki v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 5 S.C.R. 522

Bench J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan JJ.

Decided 14 April 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that we should set aside all the orders passed by the High Court granting 610 [2025] 5 S.C.R. Supreme Court Reports bail to the accused persons and they should be asked to surrender before the trial court.

Judgment, page 88

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court erred in passing various orders granting bail to accused persons in matters involving offences of serious nature of child trafficking. Headnotes† Bail – Cancellation of – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.363, 311, 370(5) – Kidnapping; Child trafficking – Interstate child- trafficking rackets – High Court granted bail to 13 accused persons allegedly involved in such cases involving interstate trafficking of minor children on a large scale – Challenge to, by the victims of the crime, the kith and kin of the children trafficked: Held: High Court while

Authorities it was built on

1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 54
2002 Ram Govind Upadhyay v. Sudarshan Singh and Ors. cited by 53
1977 Gudikanti Narasimhulu and Ors. v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh cited by 22
2019 Mahipal v. Rajesh Kumar @ Polia & Anr. cited by 21
2001 Prahlad Singh Bhat v. N.C. T., Delhi and Anr. cited by 17
2012 Ash Mohammad v. Shiv Raj Singh @ Lalla Babu and Anr. cited by 14
1984 Lakshmi Kant Pandey v. Union of India cited by 6
2011 Bachpan Bachao Andolan v. Union of India & Others cited by 3
2021 Bhoopendra Singh v. The State of Rajasthan cited by 3
2021 Brijmani Devi v. Pappu Kumar & Anr. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 State of Karnataka v. Sri Darshan Etc. relied on

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