Supreme Court of India

S. Kasi v. State through the Inspector of Police Samaynallur Police Station Madurai District

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Reported as [2020] 5 S.C.R. 277

Bench Ashok Bhushan, M.R. Shah and V. Ramasubramanian JJ.

Decided 19 June 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussions, we allow this appeal , set aside the judgment of learned Single Judge, direct that appellant be released on default bail subject to personal bond of Rs.10,000/ - with two sureties to the satisfaction of trial court.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s. 167(2) – Entitlemen t to bail in event charge sheet not filed by the poli ce within the stipulated period – The appellant-accused was arres ted on 21.02.2020 u/ss. 457, 380, 457(2), 380(2), 411(2) and 414(2) IPC – After being in judicial custody for more than 73 da ys and non- filing of charge-sheet – The appellant filed for bai l by default as contemplated u/s. 167(2) Cr. P. . before the High Court – The igh Court referring to an order of the Supreme Court dated 23.03.2020 passed in Suo Moto W.P.( ) No. 3 of 2020 took the view that the Supreme Court’s

Authorities it was built on

2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 51
2003 State of Punjab and Anr. v. Mis. Devans Modern Breweries and Anr. Etc. cited by 30
2002 Union of India v. Hansoli Devi & Ors. cited by 27
1965 Kalyani Stores v. The State of Orissa and Others cited by 18
2001 Uday Mohanlal Acharya v. State of Maharasiitra cited by 16
2001 Pradip Chandra Parija and Ors. v. Pramod Chandra Patanaik and Ors. cited by 15
2017 Rakesh Kumar Paul v. State of Assam cited by 14
2014 Union of India through Cbi v. Nirala Yadav @ Raja Ram Yadav @ Deepak Yadav cited by 8
1977 Union of India Etc. v. Bhanudas Krishna Gawde and Ors. Etc. cited by 3
2018 Achpal @ Ramswaroop & Another v. State of Rajasthan cited by 2

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