Clean Acquittal Of Accused After Long Undertrial Custody May Give Rise To Claim For Compensation : Supreme Court

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26 Sept 2024 9:01 PM IST

  • Clean Acquittal Of Accused After Long Undertrial Custody May Give Rise To Claim For Compensation : Supreme Court

    A case of clean acquittal, where the accused had spent long years under custody as an undertrial, may give rise to a claim for compensation, observed the Supreme Court in the judgment granting bail to V Senthil Balaji in a money laundering case.The Court observed that some day, the Constitutional Courts will have to address this "peculiar situation". A clean case of acquittal do not include...

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