{"id":35504,"date":"2018-10-31T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:24:02","slug":"sc-bats-for-personal-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-bats-for-personal-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"SC bats for personal liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/supreme-court-bats-for-personal-liberty\/article19531281.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SC bats for personal liberty <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court (SC) while granting bail to former Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Kumar Paul in a case of alleged corruption said that Personal liberty cannot be bargained at the altar of what the state may perceive as justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The default bail<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A three-judge Bench headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur, in a majority ruling of 2:1, said Mr. Paul was entitled to \u2018default bail\u2019 and the trial judge should release him on such terms as may be reasonable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the majority verdict, the court said that \u201cin matters of personal liberty, we cannot and should not be too technical and must lean in favour of personal liberty\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The apex court was hearing the plea filed by Mr. Paul after his bail pleas were rejected by the Gauhati High Court twice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his dissenting verdict, Justice P.C. Pant held that the accusations did not reveal merely an economic offence but it showed a transgression of the constitutional rights of the victims of the crime.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC bats for personal liberty Context The Supreme Court (SC) while granting bail to former Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Kumar Paul in a case of alleged corruption said that Personal liberty cannot be bargained at the altar of what the state may perceive as justice. The default bail A three-judge Bench headed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-bats-for-personal-liberty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC bats for personal liberty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704952045},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}