Bail Archives

Ori HC | “Enormity of devious activities touch raw nerve of economic system and strike at the root of proper & effective functioning of GST regime”

Orissa High Court: S.K. Paigrahi, J., while addressing a matter, observed that, One cannot lose sight of the fact that GST regime is

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Bail granted to tycoon accused of money-laundering sums in excess of Rs 2000 crores; Court cites principle of presumption of innocence

Delhi High Court: Anup Jairam Bhambhani J., granted bail to an accused in a money-laundering case involving a sum of more than

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | “Perpetrators of ponzi schemes have entered in a proverbial Faustain bargain”: Bail refused to accuse of money laundering by way of ponzi scheme

Orissa High Court: S.K. Panigrahi, J., while addressing a matter with regard to money laundering by way of ponzi schemes, stated that, “Act

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | No straight jacket formula as to how a woman will react to an act of outrage by a male

Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J., while addressing a bail application made the following observation: There cannot be a straight jacket formula as

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Bail refused on grounds of contraband being of commercial quantity under S. 20 of NDPS Act

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Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Accused alleged to have raped repeatedly a 17 year old victim granted bail in view of confession of “consent” by victim for the act

Bombay High Court: Sandeep K. Shinde, J., granted bail to a person accused for alleged offence of committing rape repeatedly, which turned out

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | POCSO Act overrides S. 14-A of SC/ST Act: Court while granting bail to applicant accused of sexual assault/rape on minor victim belonging to scheduled caste

Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J., allowed a bail application and granted bail to the applicant who was accused of committing the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Unitech’s Sanjay Chandra gets interim bail as parents hospitalised after testing COVID-19 positive

Supreme Court: The bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and MR Shah, JJ has granted bail to former Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra after

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | “Law makers have missed opportunity to prescribe stringent punishment; a yawning gap between law and its enforcement”: Court while feeling constrained to grant bail to accused involved in sex trafficking

“No nation, with all its boasts, and all its hopes, can ever morally be clean till all its women are really free

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | “Accused being treated as adult; possibility of tampering with minor witnesses”: Reasons for which Court rejected bail to accused in Gurugram School Murder case

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Arvind Singh Sangwan, J., dismissed the revision petition filed against the rejection of bail to the accused. The revision

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | Out of work, money and food, migrants workers wished to go back to their hometowns, instead were sent to jail: “More the victims, certainly not criminals”

Gujarat High Court: Paresh Upadhyay, J., while addressing a matter with regard to granting bail to the migrant workers who were locked in

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Rape victim falling asleep after perpetration of act is “explanation unbecoming of an Indian women”: Court while granting anticipatory bail to rape accused

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S. Dixit, J., granted anticipatory bail to the petitioner accused of committing sexual offence. Petitioner was accused for the

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Bail for offence under NDPS Act rejected where balance of convenience not in favour of accused

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Vivek Singh Thakur, J. rejected bail and dismissed the petition. The facts of the case are that, the

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras HC | Tablighi Jamaat | Foreigners who attended congregation not criminals: HC grants bail and allows return of foreigners to native country

Madras High Court: G.R. Swaminathan, J., while addressing a petition with regard to release of Tablighis, stated that, Covid-19 should teach us to

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | “No allegation of adverse consequences, in terms of enmity, hatred or ill-will, much less any violence or breach of peace, occurred as a consequence of webcast”; Court stays investigation against Vinod Dua

Delhi High Court: Anup Jairam Bhambhani, J., stayed the investigation against the television anchor and journalist Vinod Dua, alleged for spreading rumours and

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka HC lays down guidelines regarding illegal immigrants facing proceedings under the Foreigners Act, 1946

Karnataka High Court: While deciding the instant petition, wherein the petitioners have been charged with offences under Sections 14A and 14B of

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Case Briefs District Court

Patiala House Court | “When you choose to play with embers, you cannot blame the wind to have carried the spark bit too far and spread the fire”; Student activist Safoora Zargar denied bail in Chand Bagh Riots case

Patiala House Court, New Delhi: While deciding the instant bail application of student activist Safoora Zargar, who was accused of giving inflammatory

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Social divide is being brought in minds of people on basis of communal identification of group of persons through Social Media

Karnataka High Court: R. Devdas, J., while addressing a bail application held that, social media has created a panic situation where a social

Case Briefs High Courts

HP HC | Gravity of offence alone is no parameter for rejection of bail under S. 439 CrPC; Object and test for grant of bail restated

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Sandeep Sharma , J., allowed the bail petition stating that object of the bail is to secure the attendance