
Bail Can be Granted in UAPA Cases if Right to Speedy Trial is Violated, Says Supreme Court
On Monday, The Supreme Court observed that even if a person is charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, they still have the fundamental right to a speedy trial and are eligible for bail if it is violated.
A bench of Justices NV Ramana Ramana, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose held that the “rigours of UAPA provisions are meltdown”, when there is no likelihood of the trial being completed soon, and a large part of the maximum sentence has already been served as an undertrial.
The court was hearing a plea by the National Investigation Agency against the Kerala High Court’s decision to grant bail to a man accused of chopping off a professor’s palm in 2010.
The NIA had contended that the High Court erred in granting bail to the accused without considering the statut...
