Supreme Court of India

Masroor v. State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [2009] 6 S.C.R. 1030

Bench D.K. Jain and R.M. Lodha JJ.

Decided 27 April 2009

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the appeal is allowed and the impugned order granting bail to the second respondent is set aside.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 439 - Bail - Prosecution of accused u/ss. 147, 148, 149, 302 and 307 /PC c - Bail granted by High Coult - On appeal, held: Bail granted ignoring basic principles for grant of bail - In view of nature of offence and in the background in which it was committed, bail should not have been granted Bail - Grant of - Criteria for - Discussed. Respondent No. 2-accused alongwith 21 accused, ... ,... was prosecuted u/s. 147, 148, 149, 302 and 307 IPC. Bail application of the respondent-accused was rejected by Sessions Judge. However, bail was granted by High Court.

Authorities it was built on

2002 Ram Govind Upadhyay v. Sudarshan Singh and Ors. cited by 53

Where later benches applied it

2023 Ms. X v. The State of Maharashtra and Another relied on
2017 Anil Kumar Yadav v. State (nct) of Delhi & Anr. relied on
2016 State of Bihar v. Rajballav Prasad@ Rajballav Pp. Yadav@ Rajballabh Yadav relied on
2024 Ajwar v. Waseem and Another referred to
2022 Ms. P v. The State of Madhya Pradesh and Another referred to
2017 The State of Bihar & Anr. v. Amit Kumar @ Bachcha Ral referred to
2013 Gulabrao Baburao Deokar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to
2012 Ash Mohammad v. Shiv Raj Singh @ Lalla Babu and Anr. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to

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