Supreme Court: Clean acquittal of accused after long undertrial custody may give rise to claim for compensation

The Supreme Court in the case V. Senthil Balaji v. The Deputy Director observed that when the accused had spent long years under custody as an undertrial, may give rise to a claim for compensation.

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The Supreme Court granted bail to V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case. The court in the case observed that some-day, the Constitutional Courts will have to address this “peculiar situation”. Thus, a clean acquittal do not include cases where the witnesses turned hostile or faulty investigation.

The bench comprising of Justice Abhay S Ok and Justice Augustine George Masih was hearing the present matter.