Section 438 Crpc News Today

Dealing with a "unique prayer" seeking fifteen days advance notice in case the investigator proposes to arrest the accused in a corruption case, the Punjab & Haryana High Court said that if a...

"There is no statutory bar for an accused in custody in connection with a case to pray for grant of anticipatory bail in another case registered against him," the Orissa High Court held.

The Court pronounced the decision in a matter questioning the procedure that was leading to delay in deciding the bail applications before the High Court.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a person can move subsequent bail anticipatory bail applications on the emergence of substantial change in facts and circumstances. Noting that there is...

The judgment in Priya Indoria v State of Karnataka merely resolves the conflict which existed between judgments of a few High Courts on one side and the view taken by the majority of the High Courts on the other side.

A division bench of the High Court was answering the reference made by a Single Bench that whether victims or complainants are necessary party to the bail applications.

High Court referred to Supreme Court's judgement in V Senthil Balaji case and said that non-compliance of Section 19 of PMLA would vitiate the arrest.

The Supreme Court is set to consider the question of whether an Anticipatory Bail filed under Section 438 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 by a juvenile in conflict with the law as the per...

The Bombay High Court held that provisions regarding anticipatory bail in the POCSO Act would not prevail over provisions of appeal in the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act if the allegations...

In State of Haryana v. Dharamraj, the Court has effectively held that any person declared a ‘proclaimed offender’ must first assail such proclamation before availing the relief of pre-arrest bail.