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Protect right of ordinary people to bail: SC to judges
Why is it in news?
- The Supreme Court gave a clarion call to judges to protect personal liberty and the right of ordinary people to bail, saying “liberty is not a gift for the few”.
Details:
- Common citizens without the means or resources to move the High Courts or the Supreme Court are languishing in jails as undertrials.
- It is through the instrumentality of bail that our criminal justice system’s primordial interest in preserving the presumption of innocence finds its most eloquent expression
- Courts are the “first line of defence” against the deprivation of citizens’ personal liberty. There
- 91,568 bail pleas were pending in high courts, while 1.96 lakh bail applications were awaiting a hearing in the district courts.