The Allahabad High Court has questioned an Azamgarh Additional Sessions Judge for granting the applicants anticipatory bail for a limited period of only 30 days, without recording any reason, even after the charge-sheet had been filed and cognizance taken. Finding the trial judge’s explanation unsatisfactory, the Court directed him to explain the practice, noting that anticipatory bail ordinarily enures till the conclusion of trial under the Constitution Bench decision in Sushila Aggarwal.
The Delhi High Court has set aside both the grant of bail to a man accused of bank fraud, premised on a monetary settlement with the bank, and its later cancellation for breach of that settlement, holding that the liberty of an accused cannot be made to depend on the performance of a monetary settlement with the complainant. A criminal court, Justice Sanjeev Narula reiterated, is not a recovery agent. The bail application was remitted for fresh consideration on merits.
The Patna High Court granted anticipatory bail to a man in a Bihar prohibition case on the condition that he donate Rs 15,000 to the District Legal Services Authority for putting up flower pots in the Khagaria court campus, noting the liquor was seized from an open field and not from his conscious possession. Patna: […]
Today, On 4th May, The Supreme Court criticised Odisha courts for imposing caste-coloured bail conditions requiring Dalit and Adivasi accused to clean police stations, directing all courts nationwide to stop such oppressive practices. The Court called the conditions degrading, humiliating and unconstitutional.
