'Clever Move': Supreme Court Deprecates 'Package' Litigation Combining Bail Plea With Challenge To Constitutionality

While refusing to entertain the bail plea of an accused, the Supreme Court today deprecated the practice of litigants filing a "package" petition combining plea for bail and challenge to vires of a law with a view to circumvent lower Courts.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was dealing with the plea of one Pradhyumansinh Pravinsinh Rathod, who sought quashing of an FIR...