Bail not jail is the rule, says Apex Court

EXPRESSING dismay over the habit of trial courts and high courts denying bail even in minor cases despite completion of investigation, the Supreme Court said that the practice is unacceptable in a democratic country and that it creates unnecessary strain on the higher judiciary.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY @ New Delhi

"A democratic country must not function like a police state, where law enforcement agencies exercise arbitrary powers to detain individuals without genuine necessity," a bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said on Monday while grant