The Gujarat High Court has disposed of journalist Ravi Nair’s challenge to his arrest on a non-bailable warrant in the Adani Enterprises defamation case after the sessions court granted him regular bail, while criticising the non-disclosure of his parallel bail application.
The Delhi High Court has set aside a trial court order granting regular bail to a man accused of rape on a false promise of marriage, holding that the prosecutrix was entitled to be heard, and has sent the bail application back for a fresh decision within two weeks, without expressing a view on the merits.
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 denied bail to a man accused of raping a woman on a false promise of marriage, noting prima facie material that he had created and operated nine fake profiles on a matrimonial website, using different names, ages and occupations, and even posing as a woman, to target victims. Justice Girish Kathpalia declined bail with the trial at an advanced stage, clarifying that nothing said would prejudice either side at trial.
A Sessions Court in Gandhinagar has granted regular bail to journalist Ravi Nair, who was arrested on a non-bailable warrant in a criminal defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises. Nair had been convicted by a magistrate and his sentence suspended pending appeal, but was taken into custody this month after a court declined to cancel the warrant. His plea for release had also been argued before the Supreme Court and the Gujarat High Court.
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.
Granting regular bail to a man accused as a conspirator in a firing incident outside a Delhi club, the Delhi High Court reiterated that bail is the rule and jail the exception, noting that the investigation was complete, he had no antecedents, was not present at the spot, and had already spent eight months in […]
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
After the applicant was granted pardon and became an approver, the State argued that a regular bail application was no longer maintainable. The Delhi High Court treated the plea as one under its inherent jurisdiction and held that the statutory bar on releasing an approver under Section 343(4)(b) of the BNSS operates only against the Trial Court.
