World · South & Central Asia · 13 hrs ago
Supreme Court orders release of man held after receiving bail
The Supreme Court ordered a man’s immediate release after he stayed in jail for about six weeks despite being granted bail.
He was accused in an abetment of suicide case in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, and had already spent a year in custody.
The Supreme Court granted him bail on September 28, but the trial court still had to set conditions for his release.
Local lawyers refused to represent him, reportedly because the person who died was the child of a local lawyer.
The man said the local bar association had stopped lawyers from helping him, preventing the bail order from taking effect.
The Supreme Court called his continued detention unusual and disturbing and asked Uttar Pradesh to explain whether he should receive compensation.
It also asked that the case be brought to the attention of the Allahabad High Court’s chief justice.
The Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of a man who remained in jail for one and a half months after being granted bail.
The man had spent about a year in custody in an abetment of suicide case before the court granted him bail.
The court said its bail order had not been implemented and described his continued detention as illegal.
Lawyers had refused to represent him before the trial court in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, which needed to set release conditions.
The court sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government on compensation and asked that the case be brought to the Allahabad High Court chief justice’s attention.
- Who
- The Supreme Court ordered the release of a man accused in an abetment of suicide case.
- What
- It directed the jail superintendent to release him immediately after obtaining a personal bond of Rs 10,000.
- When
- The Supreme Court granted him bail on Sept. 28; it ordered his immediate release about one and a half months later.
- Where
- He was held in jail after proceedings in the trial court in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.
- Why
- Lawyers refused to represent him before the trial court, which was to set the terms for his release.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The Supreme Court granted the man bail after he had spent about a year in custody.
The man remained in jail because lawyers refused to represent him before the trial court.
The Supreme Court ordered the jail superintendent to release him immediately on a personal bond of Rs 10,000.
- Accusation
- Abetment of suicide
- Bail granted
- Sept. 28
- Time in custody before bail
- About one year
- Additional detention after bail
- One and a half months
- Personal bond
- Rs 10,000
- Trial court location
- Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh
What people are saying
very unusual
very disturbing
A criminal trial cannot be allowed to continue in a district where the local legal ecosystem, police machinery and local bar have combined to form a singular, hostile front against the accused, thereby creating reasonable apprehension of bias against a fair trial