Justice Sanjeev Narula of the Delhi High Court has refused to quash an FIR under Section 64(1) of the BNS and Section 6 of POCSO against a man who married a 16-year-old girl, holding that a marriage recognised under Muslim personal law confers no immunity, since the age of eighteen under POCSO and the BNS cannot be replaced by puberty.
The Delhi High Court has granted regular bail to an accused in an Enforcement Directorate money-laundering case linked to alleged terror funding, holding that nearly four years of pre-trial detention, with the trial far from conclusion and no delay attributable to him, outweighs the stringent bail bar under Section 45 of the PMLA. The twin conditions of Section 45, though mandatory, must yield to the constitutional right to a speedy trial, the Court held.
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.
