Justice Aravind Kumar-led bench says K.A. Najeeb judgment, which held that constitutional courts can grant bail to UAPA accused facing prolonged incarceration, is 'not charter or mathematical command'.
Bench of justices B.V. Nagarathna & Ujjal Bhuyan quoted 2021 KA Najeeb judgement in which 3-judge bench ruled the right to speedy trial under Article 21 would apply in UAPA cases as well.
At the closing debate of JLF, Pavan K Varma posed a question that had the crowd in an uproar. ‘Would you want to be in jail without bail,’ he said, referring to Umar Khalid.
‘If an expeditious trial is not possible, then bail should be the rule and not the exception,’ ex-CJI DY Chandrachud told Vir Sanghvi at a Jaipur Literature Festival session on Sunday.
In a session titled 'The Measure of Justice' at JLF 2026, lawyers Ashwani Kumar and Vrinda Grover and US judge Ketu Shah discussed the Indian constitutional, moral and legal crises.
Citing their role in 'larger conspiracy' behind the 2020 riots, the court denied Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam bail despite years of incarceration, taking a position that contrasts with several of its earlier rulings.
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The central curse of our urban governance isn’t that more voters live in these slummified villages. It’s that the political class panders to them instead of improving their quality of life.
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