High Courts Cannot Issue Administrative Directions While Deciding Bail Pleas: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of India examined a legal issue arising from a long-pending cheating and forgery case registered in 2002 at Police Station Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh. The accused, Rambalak, was facing allegations under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, and 471 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The case reached the higher judiciary after the Allahabad High Court rejected his second bail application in 2025 but simultaneously issued extensive administrative directions…