Bail Cancellation Archives

Witness Protection Scheme cannot substitute bail cancellation; rendering provisions of bail cancellation otiose: Supreme Court

Witness Protection Scheme is a remedial and curative measure, designed to neutralise the effects of threats once they have materialised. Bail cancellation, on the other hand, is a preventive and supervisory function of the criminal court, whose duty is to ensure that the trial proceeds unpolluted by intimidation.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Case of Saviour turning into a devil’; Supreme Court cancels Superintendent’s bail in Patna’s Uttar Raksha Grih women inmates trafficking case

“Grant of bail to the person accused of such grave offences without assigning reasons shakes the conscience of the Court and would have an adverse impact on the society”.

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Rape of dead body is horrendous but not rape’: Read why Chhattisgarh HC rejected mother’s plea against acquittal of man for offence under S. 363 and S. 376 (3) of IPC

“There can be no disagreement on the issue that dignity and fair treatment is not only available to a living man but also to his dead body and every dead body is entitled to a respectful treatment.”