(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) In Depth: Anticipatory Bail

Topic: Anticipatory Bail

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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court delivered a significant verdict, ruling that no time limit can be set while granting anticipatory bail. It also referred to the freedom movement when people were jailed for protesting against the British rule While lamenting that arbitrary arrests continue to be a pervasive phenomenon.The Top Court asserted that the discretionary power of courts to grant anticipatory bail can't be curtailed and can continue till the end of a trial.

Over the years, anticipatory bail has come to mean a safeguard for a person who has false accusation or charges made against him or her, most commonly due to professional or personal enmity, as it ensures the release of the falsely accused person even before he or she is arrested.