The bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay Shreeniwas Oka issued guidelines on the issue of release of undertrial prisoners who are behind bars even after being grant of bail by the Courts due to inability to fulfill the conditions prescribed in the bail order or otherwise.

The Court has issued 7 directions in the case which are as follows:-

1)The Court which grants bail to an undertrial prisoner/convict would be required to send a soft copy of the bail order by e-mail to the prisoner through the Jail Superintendent on the same day or the next day. The Jail Superintendent would be required to enter the date of grant of bail in the e-prisons software [or any other software which is being used by the Prison Department].

2) If the accused is not released within a period of 7 days from the date of grant of bail, it would be the duty of the Superintendent of Jail o inform the Secretary, DLSA who may depute para legal volunteer or jail visiting advocate to interact with the prisoner and assist the prisoner in all ways possible for his release.

3) NIC would make attempts to create necessary fields in the e-prison software so that the date of grant of bail and date of release are entered by the Prison Department and in case the prisoner is not released within 7 days, then an automatic email can be sent to the Secretary, DLSA.

4) The Secretary, DLSA with a view to find out the economic condition of the accused, may take help of the Probation Officers or the Para Legal Volunteers to prepare a report on the socio-economic conditions of the inmate which may be placed before the concerned Court with a request to relax the condition (s) of bail/surety.

5) In cases where the undertrial or convict requests that he can furnish bail bond or sureties once released, then in an appropriate case, the Court may consider granting temporary bail for a specified period to the accused so that he can furnish bail bond or sureties.

6) If the bail bonds are not furnished within one month from the date of grant bail, the concerned Court may suo moto take up the case and consider whether the conditions of bail require modification/ relaxation.

7) One of the reasons which delays the release of the accused/ convict is the insistence upon local surety. It is suggested that in such cases, the courts may not impose the condition of local surety.”

NALSA has submitted a report before the Supreme court which says there are more than 5000 such prisoners who have been given the benefit of bail but they are not released due to reasons of not fulfilling bail terms.

Case Details:-

Suo Moto Writ (Crl) No. 4/2021

IN RE POLICY STRATEGY FOR GRANT OF BAIL

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Appearance of the Advocates:-

By Courts Motion, AOR
Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Adv. (AC)
Mr. Neeraj Kumar Jain, Sr. Adv. (AC)
Mr. Sanjay Singh, Adv.
Mr. Devansh A Mohta, Adv. (AC) (NP)

For Petitioner(s)
Ms. Liz Mathew, AOR (AC)

For Respondent(s) 
Mr. K.M. Nataraj, Ld. ASG
Mr. Jayant Sud, Ld. ASG
Mr. Mukesh K Verma, Adv.
Mr. Neeraj K Sharma, Adv.
Mrs. Indra Bhaker, Adv.
Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv.
Mr. B.K. Satiya, Adv.
Mr. S.N. Terdol, AOR
Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR
Ms. Prachi Mishra, A.A.G.
Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR
Mr. Gaurav Arora, Adv.
Mr. Partha Sil, AOR
Mr. Tavish Bhushan Prasad, Adv.
Ms. Sayani Bhattacharya, Adv.
Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR
Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR
Mr. Abhishek Chaterjee, Adv.
Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR
Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv.
Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, D.A.G.
Mr. Paras Dutta, Adv.
Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR
Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Adv.
Mr. Vedant Bharadwaj, Adv.
Mr. Manoj Kumar, Adv.
Ms. Mridula Ray Bharadwaj, AOR
Mr. Divyakant Lahoti, AOR
Mr. Parikshit Ahuja, Adv.
Ms. Praveena Bisht, Adv.
Ms. Madhur Jhavar, Adv.
Ms. Vindhya Mehra, Adv.
Mr. Kartik Lahoti, Adv.
Ms. Garima Verma, Adv.
Mr. Basava Prabhu S Patil, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Raghavendra S Srivatsa, AOR
Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.R., Adv.
Mr. Likhi Chand Bonsle, Adv.
Ms. Komal Mundhra, Adv.
Mr. Saurabh Agrawal, Adv.
Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR
Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv.
Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv.
Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR
Mr. A. Hari Prasad, Sr. Adv.,
Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR
Ms. Ria Sachthey, Adv.
Mr. Chetanya Singh, Adv.
Dr. Ranjit Bharti, Adv.
Mrs. Rubina Jawed, Adv.
Mr. Mrigank Prabhakar, AOR
Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR
Mr. Maibam Nabaghanashyam Singh, Adv.
Mr. Mahesh Thakur, Adv.
Mr. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, AOR
Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR
Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv.
Mr. T Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv.
Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv.
Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv.
Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv.
Mr. Kedar Nath Tripathy, AOR
M/S. KSN & Co., AOR
Mr. Harshad V. Hameed, AOR
Mr. Dileep Poolakkot, Adv.
Mr. Subhash Chandran K.r., Adv.
Mrs. Ashly Harshad, Adv.
Mr. Manish Kumar, AOR
Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv.
Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv.
Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv.
Mr. Akash Singh, Adv.
Mr. Nihar Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Ms. Sampriti B., Adv.
Mr. Nirminesh Dube, AOR
Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR
Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR
Ms. Abhivyakti Banerjee, Adv.
Ms. Sakshi Garg, Adv.
Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR
Ms. Bipasa Tripathy, Adv.
Ms. Prachi Mishra, A.A.G.
Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR
Mr. Gaurav Arora, Adv.
Ms. Ankita Choudhary, Dy. A.G.
Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR
Mr. Manoj Kukmar, Adv.
Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.
Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.
Mr. Ankit Sharma, Adv.
For M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR
Mr. Vinod Ghai, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR
Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv.
Ms. Bhupinder, Adv.
Ms. Sugandh Rathor, Adv.
Ms. Priyanka C., Adv.
Mr. V.K. Khanna, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv.
Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv.
Ms. Niharika Dewedi, Adv.
Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv.
For Mr. Anil Shrivastava, Adv.
Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR
Mr. Shobhit Jain, Adv.
Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv.
Mr. Sagun Srivastava, Adv.
Mr. Aravindh S., AOR
Mr. Abbas.b, Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR
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Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR
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Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR
Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.
Mrs. Anupama Ngangom, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Shrikant Kenjale, AOR
Mr. Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Adv.
Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR
Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv.
Mr. Kynpham V. Khalyngdoh, Adv.
Mr. Daniel Lyngdoh, Adv.
Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv.
Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv.
Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv.
Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR
Mr. Ravinder Singh, Adv.
Mr. Shreyaj Awasthi, Adv.
Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv.
Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv.
Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv.
Mr. Kanhaiya Singhal, AOR
Mr. Chetan Bhardwaj, Adv.
Mr. Prasanna, Adv.
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Mr. Udit Bakshi, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR
Mr. Mukesh K. Giri, AOR
Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR
Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv.
Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv.
Mr. Pashupatinath Razdan, AOR
Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR
Mr. Abhinav Mukherji, AOR
Mr. Yogesh Kanna, AOR
Mr. Ashok Kumar Panda, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Soumitra G Chaudhuri, Adv.
Mr. Shashwat Panda, Adv.
Ms. Vandana Tiwari, Adv.
Ms. Simran Singh, Adv.
Mr. Chanchal K Ganguli, AOR
Mr. Niranjana Singh, AOR
Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR
Mr. Subhranshu Padhi, AOR
Mrs. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv./AAG
Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR
Mr. Savesh Singh Baghel, AOR
Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
Mrs. K Enatoli Sema, AOR
Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv.
Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.
Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.
Mr. V. Krishnamurthy, Sr. Adv./AAG
Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR
Mr. Shobhit Dwivedi, Adv.
Mr. sanjeev Kr. Mahara, Adv.
Ms. Richa Vishwakarma , Adv.
Ms. Vaidehi Rastogi, Adv.
Mr. Gopal Jha, AOR
Mr. Baij Nath Patel, Adv.
Mr. Umesh Kr. Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Keshari, Adv.
Ms. Sweta, Adv.
Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Yash S Vijay, Adv.
Mr. Chandratannay Chubey, Adv.