Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 99 · Decided 6 February 1995
State of M.P. and ANR. v. Ram Kishna Balothia and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 99 · [1995] 1 S.C.R. 897
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1343/1995
- Decided
- 6 February 1995
- Bench
- B.P. JEEVAN REDDY, SUJATA V. MANOHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 438; Constitution Article 21, 14, 17
Headnote
B Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989: Section 18-0ffences fall into a separate and special class-Cannot be compared with other offences-Anticipatory bail-Denial of-Neither un­ reasonable nor unconstitutional. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Section Article 21 of the Constitution-Denial to special category of offences-Held : cannot be con­ sidered as violative of Article 21. Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14 and 21. Right to Anticipatory bail-Special category of offences-Denial of-Held : not an essential ingredient or an integral
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