RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Oct.6: The Supreme Court of India does not see any justification in imposing term of payment of victim compensation for the purpose of granting the relief of pre-arrest bail to any applicant anticipating his or her arrest.
A recent Supreme Court order modifying the order of Jharkhand High Court suggests so.
The Jharkhand High Court had granted anticipatory bail to accused persons of matrimonial dispute on the condition of furnishing bail bond of Rs 25000 and added the condition of depositing demand draft of Rs 7.5 lakh as an interim relief.
The Apex court annulled the condition of depositing demand draft of Rs 7.5 lakh before observing that it is not a case of recovery of victim compensation.
“The petition seeking relief of pre-arrest bail is not money recovery proceedings and ordinarily there is no justification for adopting such a course for the purpose of giving concession of pre-arrest bail,” a division bench comprising Dinesh Maheswari and Bela M Trivedi observed.
This is the fourth such case in the last almost a month. The Supreme Court has changed the Jharkhand High Court order given in the matter of granting bail application or anticipatory bail petition on the terms of victim compensation.
