Right To Get Anticipatory Bail Is Not Any Fundamental Right, Says Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

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9 July 2019 9:37 PM IST

"This statutory power of granting pre-arrest bail is so extraordinary that it is not even available in all parts of the country; and even through-out the country qua some offences under special statutes."

Right to get anticipatory bail is not any fundamental right, remarked the High Court of Punjab and Haryana while rejecting an application filed by a man involved in a case registered under the Narcotics Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Justice Rajbir Sehrawat observed that the statutory power of granting pre-arrest bail is so extraordinary that it is not even available...

Right To Get Anticipatory Bail Is Not Any Fundamental Right, Says Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

LIVELAW NEWS NETWORK

"This statutory power of granting pre-arrest bail is so extraordinary that it is not even available in all parts of the country; and even through-out the country qua some offences under special statutes."

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