Supreme Court raps High Court for refusing bail: ‘You invented new law’

The court said that a convict should be granted bail if there was no chance of appeal against conviction being heard in the near future in the high courts due to a huge pendency of cases.

The Supreme Court has expressed anguish over an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which held a convict’s plea for the suspension of sentence could be allowed only when they had served half of their sentence.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan granted bail to a man and said a convict should be granted bail if there was no chance of appeal against conviction being heard in near future in high courts due to huge pendency of cases.