Supreme Court of India

Enforcement Directorate, Government of v. Kapil Wadhawan & Anr. Etc.

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Reported as [2021] 1 S.C.R. 721
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy JJ.
Decided 23 February 2021

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we direct the Registry to place all the relev ant documents before the Hon’ble Chief Justice for constituting a bench of at least 3 judges to resolve the conflict in law on the issue of grant of default bail.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.167(2)(a)(ii) – Default bail – Issue as to whether while computing the period of 90 days or 60 days as contemplated in s.167(2)(a)(ii) CrPC, the day of remand is to be included or excluded, for considering a cla im for default bail – Because of the conflicting view on the propositi on of law for grant of default bail, a judicial conundrum has ari sen which is required to be resolved for guidance of the Court – I ssue referred to larger Bench – Bail. State of M.P. v. Rustom & Ors.1995 (Supp) 3 SCC 221; Ravi Prakash Singh v. State of Bihar (2015) 8 SCC 340 :

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