Court Waives Bail Condition Stipulating One Surety to Be Relative of Accused, Calls It 'Onerous': Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court, in a landmark judgment under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, has waived an onerous bail condition that required an accused to furnish two solvent sureties, one of whom had to be a relative or kin. The Single Bench of Justice Gourishankar Satapathy observed that such a condition, which is impossible to comply with, directly violates the constitutional mandate of personal liberty guaranteed under Article 21…
