Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 – s.483 – Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail – High Court while exercising bail jurisdiction, undertaking exercise of issuing directions – Power of – High Court dismissed the second bail application in a case u/ss.419, 420, 467, 468 and 471 IPC and directed that the trial court to issue summons u/ss.62 and
69 Cr.P.C. and also take coercive measures as against those persons who delay or impede proceedings – This Court passed an interim order releasing the appellant on bail and posted the matter for considering the issue of the power of the Court to issue directions while exercising bail jurisdiction – Sustainability: Held: Impugned judgment in so far as it directs following what has been laid in the earlier bail orders, cannot be sustained and is set aside – However, in the interest of justice, the steps that have been taken by the State authorities to remain unaffected and continue to function independent of the orders in which they stood issued – State at liberty to modify the same to be in consonance with the prevalent laws of the land should the need so arise. [Para 8]
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