Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 58 the Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that a private lawyer engaged by a complainant does not have an independent right of audience when opposing an anticipatory bail petition under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The court’s careful, precedent-driven decision makes clear that only the State’s…
Citation : 2006 Local Law (CG) 100 The Chhattisgarh High Court has granted anticipatory bail to two men who feared arrest in a nearly two-decade-old assault case that initially included an allegation under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Writing for the bench, Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha reviewed the FIR and…
Citation : 2005 Local Law (CG) 18 In an anticipatory bail matter from Ambikapur, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held that Section 18 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 does not bar relief when the FIR, taken at face value, does not disclose the ingredients of an offence under…
Citation : 2005 Local Law (CG) 23 The Chhattisgarh High Court has clarified that the Juvenile Justice Act does not limit the powers of the High Court or the Sessions Court to grant bail under Sections 438 and 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The order came in a case involving a 17-year-old boy, Mohan,…
Citation : 2005 Local Law (CG) 4 The Chhattisgarh High Court has ordered the release of Umeshwar Dubey on regular bail in a case alleging criminal breach of trust and related offences tied to a missing cash amount of ₹5.9 lakh from a bank locker in Korea district. Justice V.K. Shrivastava allowed Dubey’s application under…
Citation : 2004 Local Law (CG) 75 In a carefully reasoned decision, a single-judge bench of the Chhattisgarh High Court granted anticipatory bail to Satyaprakash Verma in a long-standing matter that began with a 2002 complaint under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Justice L.C. Bhadoo reviewed the allegations and concluded…
Citation : 2003 Local Law (CG) 47 The Chhattisgarh High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a senior South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (SECL) officer who faced charges under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act after an altercation at a village meeting over compensation and employment issues. Justice L.C. Bhadoo allowed the…
Citation : 2002 Local Law (CG) 48 In a careful exercise of judicial discretion, the Chhattisgarh High Court on October 2, 2002, granted limited anticipatory bail to four relatives accused in Crime No. 705/2001, registered at Civil Lines Police Station, Raipur. The bench, led by Justice Prakash Chandra Naik, made the order after weighing investigative…
Citation : 2001 Local Law (CG) 64 The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside interim bail orders and dismissed two miscellaneous criminal petitions after finding that several applicants and a lower court tried to short-circuit the legal process. The court’s strongly worded order, delivered in July 2001, rescinded ad-interim anticipatory bail granted in February and…
High Court: Bail & Police Misconduct (2001) The Chhattisgarh High Court granted bail to Kamla Bai Shriwas and two co-accused while issuing strong remarks against the investigating officer for concealing crucial evidence in a dowry death case. The order, passed on 24 February 2001 by Justice R. S. Garg in M. Cr. C. Nos. 331…