RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi / Delhi, Sept.7: Supreme Court stayed the Jharkhand High Court order granting bail in lieu of Rs 4 lakh to an accused of a dowry case.The order given on September 5 came to fore after it was uploaded on the official website of the Supreme Court on September 6.
The apex court stayed the Jharkhand High Court order, which was given on November 25, 2021 after hearing anticipatory bail petition of Talat Sanvi, which cleared that the practice of granting bail in lieu of money will only boost the morale of the accused.
The matter reached before the apex court after Sanvi, dissatisfied with Jharkhand High Court order in his anticipatory bail petition filed a special leave petition (SLP) before the apex court requesting it to stay the order.
Advocate Ganesh Khanna argued on behalf of Sanvi in the division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Abhay S. Oka, from where the stay order came.
The development took place after a dispute arose between Tanvi and his wife. Tanvi’s wife filed a dowry harassment case in the court of SDJM against Tanvi after the breakup and later started taking judicial remedy to save him from arrest.
This is not for the first time the Supreme Court had called the Jharkhand High Court wrong to grant bail facility on the basis of victim compensation. Earlier, the apex court had also passed a similar order.
