Supreme Court of India

Sanjay Chandra v. Cbi

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Reported as [2011] 13 S.C.R. 309

Bench G.S. Singhvi and H.L. Dattu JJ.

Decided 23 November 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the appellants are entitled to the grant of bail pending trial on stringent conditions in order to ally the apprehension expressed by CBI.

Judgment, page 37

From the headnote

CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEUDRE, 1973: s. 439 - Bail - Governing principles - Explained - Telecom scam - Applications for bail rejected by Special Judge and High Court - Held: No doubt, the offence alleged against the accused is a serious one in terms of alleged huge loss to the State exchequer, that, by itself, should not deter the Court from enlarging them on bail when there is no o serious contention of the prosecution that the accused, if released on bail, would interfere with the trial or tamper with evidence - It is also significant that the investigation has already been completed and the

Authorities it was built on

2002 Ram Govind Upadhyay v. Sudarshan Singh and Ors. cited by 53
2010 Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra and Others cited by 46
2005 State through C.B.I. v. Amarmani Tripthi cited by 36
1977 Gudikanti Narasimhulu and Ors. v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of Andhra Pradesh cited by 22
1977 Gurcharan Singh & Ors. v. State (delhi Administration) cited by 10
2011 State of Kerala v. Raneef cited by 7
1978 Babu Singh and Ors. v. The State of U.P. cited by 6
1978 Moti Ram & Ors. v. State of M.P. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2021 The State of Kerala v. Mahesh relied on
2012 Dipak Shubhashchandra Mehta v. C.B.I. and Anr. relied on
2023 Munilakshmi v. Narendra Babu & Anr. referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Satender Kumar Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr. referred to
2021 Ramesh Bhavan Rathod v. Vishanbhai Hirabhai Makwana Makwana (koli) & Anr. referred to
2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to
2019 P. Chidambaram v. Directorate of Enforcement referred to
2019 National Investigation Agency v. Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali referred to
2015 Dr. Vinod Bhandari v. State of M.P. referred to
2017 Rohit Tandon v. The Enforcement Directorate distinguished
2017 The State of Bihar & Anr. v. Amit Kumar @ Bachcha Ral distinguished
2017 Virupakshappa Gouda and Another v. The State of Karnataka and Another distinguished

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 distinguished · 8 referred to

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