SC raps CBI for delays: Can’t keep everyone in jail till you finish trial
New Delhi: 28.7.2021
The SC on Tuesday frowned at the long pendency of trial in cases investigated by CBI and said the central agency has not been able to complete prosecution evidence despite lapse of years in many cases, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.
The court said the CBI’s track record in expeditious completion of prosecution evidence is not so good. “There is a value to personal liberty. We cannot keep everyone behind bars for all the time that the CBI would take to complete a trial,” it said.
Granting bail to an accused in the 2011 abductionmurder of Rajasthan nurse Bhanwari Devi, the bench said, “The accused is in jail for the last eight and a half years. What will happen if he gets discharged at the end of the trial? Will the prosecution be able to compensate him?”
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