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Punjab and Haryana High Court pointed out that from the suicide note, it could not be said that the petitioner ever came in contact with the complainant’s son after the day of settlement between the two families.
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“The Courts cannot be used as a forum for pressurizing the accused to get married to the victim or be denied bail, or by the accused for obtaining bail by asking the complainant to appear before the Court and state that he was ready to get married to her.”
There was a declaration of the accused as a proclaimed offender, and such declaration was subsisting on the date of the impugned order, thus, the Supreme Court disagreed with the High Court that the accused was entitled to ‘reform and course correct’.
Supreme Court opined that the Jharkhand High Court fell into error in adopting such a casual approach and set aside the impugned order. Thus, granted bail to the husband.
“During the said period of trial, there is no occasion for the applicant to keep him languishing behind the bars, as it would serve no purpose especially in view of the aforesaid and as it is a trite law that no person is presumed guilty until proven otherwise.”
“If this scam had not come to light, so many corrupt and unethical people would have got appointed to the sensitive post of Sub Inspector by giving money.”
“Offences of forging documents for transferring ownership of land worth crores are grave in nature. Hence, while it is extremely important to protect the personal liberty of a person, it is equally incumbent to analyse the seriousness of the offence and determine if there is a need for custodial interrogation.”
Supreme Court extended the time to file the counter affidavit to four weeks.
The Supreme Court reminded the High Courts and the Sessions Courts not to be unduly swayed by submissions advanced by counsel on behalf of the accused in the nature of undertakings to keep in deposit/repay any amount while seeking bail in Cheating cases.
Allahabad High Court remarked that Maulana Syed claims himself to be an Islamic religious scholar and he has claimed that he had made the statements “In light of the provisions of Holy Quran and Islamic jurisprudence” and “In the light of Shia school of thought, philosophy & jurisprudence” but he has not referred to a single verse of the Holy Quran.
Provocative slogans were raised giving rise to communal disharmony leading to arson and bloodshed during the procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.
Delhi High Court observed that if the petitioner raped the victim forcibly in the month of February 2019 then it is difficult to digest that she would accompany the petitioner to Chandigarh in the last days of February to attend Celebrity Cricket League and meet the celebrities.
the Inquiry Officer found during pre-registration inquiry that the obscene videos were prepared by the complainant herself, but after registration of FIR, the Investigating Officer viewed that the videos and photographs were prepared by the husband on his own mobile in connivance with the co-accused.
Supreme Court considered the fact of inordinate delay of 3 years in filing the FIR.
Section 438 was inserted in CrPC as it was seen that the influential persons try to implicate their rivals in false cases for the purpose of disgracing them by detaining them in jail for some time. It is true, such powers are to be exercised in exceptional cases. The prosecution cannot be permitted to be converted into an arena to settle scores.
When there is prima facie satisfaction that there is something more than a mere needle of suspicion against the accused, the Court cannot jeopardise the investigation, more so when the allegations are grave in nature.
The Patna High Court had rejected the petitioner’s anticipatory bail in this matter, while the Supreme Court granted protection to the petitioner against arrest on 16-12-2022.