Bail Can't Be Refused As Indirect Punishment: Delhi Court In Bribery Case
NDTV
Special Judge Sunena Sharma granted bail, saying it is one of the basic principles of criminal jurisprudence that an accused is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
A Delhi court has said bail cannot be refused as an indirect process of punishing an accused before he is convicted while releasing a man accused of taking a bribe of Rs 12 lakh.
Special Judge Sunena Sharma granted bail to Rishi Raj, saying it is one of the basic principles of criminal jurisprudence that an accused is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
"It is one of the basic principles of criminal jurisprudence that the accused is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Even assuming that the accused is prima facie guilty of an offence, bail cannot be refused in an indirect process of punishing the accused before he is convicted," the judge said in the order passed on July 17.
