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The apex court said that the High Court should have implemented the existing law and the petitioner should not be forced to go before him for bail. The High Court order stated, “Given the fact that the tainted currency notes have been recovered from the pants’ pockets and there is no explanation for this, there is no case of suspension of punishment and bail.
The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, stating that the guilty petition for suspension of sentence can be accepted only when he has completed half the period of his sentence. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan granted bail to a person, saying that if there is no possibility of hearing an appeal against conviction in the near future in the High Courts due to the large number of pending cases, the convict should be granted bail. The bench said on 17 April that we wonder that the High Court has enacted a new law which has no basis.
The apex court said that the High Court should have implemented the existing law and the petitioner should not be forced to go before him for bail. The High Court order stated, “Given the fact that the tainted currency notes have been recovered from the pants’ pockets and there is no explanation for this, there is no case of suspension of punishment and bail.
It said, the second application has been filed … less than two months after the first application is rejected. Accordingly, it is clarified that the appellant can resume his prayer for suspension of punishment after completing half the period of jail sentence, including exemption.
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