{"id":345431,"date":"2025-08-30T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=345431"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:32:13","slug":"cashless-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cashless-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashless Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order against cashless bail in the U.S., cutting federal funding to jurisdictions that permit the practice.<\/p>\n<h2>About Cashless Bail<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"687\"><strong data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"556\">Definition<\/strong>: A system where an accused is released <em>without depositing money<\/em> as bail, but with conditions to ensure they appear in court.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"834\"><strong data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"715\">Traditional Cash Bail<\/strong>: Requires an accused to <em>deposit money or property<\/em> as surety; refunded at the end of trial if conditions are met.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"969\"><strong data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"848\">Problem<\/strong>: Cash bail disproportionately affects the poor, who may remain in jail for minor offences due to inability to pay.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"1134\"><strong data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"1000\">Purpose of Cashless Bail<\/strong>: To prevent unnecessary detention of individuals accused of non-violent or minor crimes, while still ensuring court attendance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1569\" data-end=\"1594\"><strong>Bail System in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1698\">Governed by <em>Chapter 35 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023,<\/em> replacing CrPC 1973.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1732\"><strong data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1729\">Types of Bail Conditions<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"1802\"><strong data-start=\"1737\" data-end=\"1745\">Bond<\/strong>: Accused signs an agreement (often with cash deposit).<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1879\"><strong data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1820\">Bail Bond<\/strong>: Surety from another person with financial verification.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"2007\"><strong data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"1919\">Personal Recognisance (PR) Bond<\/strong>: Release without monetary deposit, based on trust that accused will return for trial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2030\"><strong>Issues in India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"2033\" data-end=\"2145\">Thousands of undertrials remain in jail despite bail due to inability to furnish surety or deposit small sums.<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2278\" data-end=\"2326\">Law Commission of India (268th Report, 2017)<\/strong>: Said bail decisions based purely on money are <strong data-start=\"2374\" data-end=\"2410\">contrary to constitutional ethos<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2451\">Supreme Court Guidelines (2023)<\/strong>: If a prisoner remains in jail for over a week despite bail, jail authorities must alert <em>District Legal Services Authority<\/em> for assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News&#8211; Recently, President Donald Trump signed an executive order against cashless bail in the U.S., cutting federal funding to jurisdictions that permit the practice. About Cashless Bail Definition: A system where an accused is released without depositing money as bail, but with conditions to ensure they appear in court. Traditional Cash Bail: Requires an accused&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cashless-bail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cashless Bail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-345431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}