Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 567 · Decided 2 August 2024
Sudeep Chatterjee v. State of Bihar & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 567 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 662
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3210/2024
- Decided
- 2 August 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A; CrPC Section 438
Headnote
Whether the High Court erred by putting onerous conditions on accused-appellant while granting provisional pre-arrest bail. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.438 - Whether the High Court erred by putting onerous conditions on accused- bail: Held: Courts have to be very cautious in imposing conditions while granting bail upon finding pre-arrest bail to be grantable - Conditions should be put warily, especially when the couple concerned who are litigating in divorce proceedings, jointly though lukewarmly, agreed to
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