Anticipatory bail under BNSS: legal safeguard or loophole?
A detailed new analysis by Sanjushree Sur and Deepshika Chauhan argues that India’s move from the CrPC to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) has shifted anticipatory bail from a carefully balanced protective remedy to a tool that can be inconsistently applied and sometimes misused. The authors trace the history of anticipatory bail through landmark…