Recent Developments In Bail Jurisprudence

The egalitarian maxim "Bail, not Jail" enunciated by Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer seemed to have got watered down in the past decades. The number of under trial prisoners in jails kept inexorably increasing over the years. As the graph below would show, more than 18000 under trial prisoners had, as on 31st December 207, been languishing in jails...