Criminal Miscellaneous Applications (Applications) are filed in the Criminal Courts (courts) for various reasons and at various stages i.e before, during and after the adjudication of criminal trial. By filing these applications trial is not decided but only interim right or ancillary issue is resolved by the court. These applications lead to interlocutory proceedings in the course of trial. This paper aims at probing and exploring the recent trends, objectives, necessity, reasons, uses, procedures, criteria and various provisions under which the applications are filed, how the courts deal which such applications etc. Undoubtedly and definitely applications are part of judicial process. The recent judicial trends in the various judgments show radical change and fundamental shift in the outlook of the courts while adjudicating applications