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Supreme Court grants bail to MCOCA accused after 7 years
The Supreme Court has granted bail to Abhijeet Ganesh Kadu, an accused under MCOCA in the 2019 murder of Pune gangster Nilesh Wadkar, after over seven years and six months in custody.…
The Story in Brief
The Supreme Court has granted bail to Abhijeet Ganesh Kadu, an accused under MCOCA in the 2019 murder of Pune gangster Nilesh Wadkar, after over seven years and six months in custody. The bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta noted parity with co-accused who had already secured bail. Kadu was charged under the IPC, Arms Act, and MCOCA for the January 13, 2019 murder at Janata Colony.
Separately, a special MCOCA court granted bail to Zainul Shaikh, accused in the 2011 Mumbai serial bomb blasts that killed 27 people. The court cited his nearly 15 years of undertrial incarceration and parity with co-accused already released. The prosecution argued the trial had progressed, but the judge held that the constitutional right to personal liberty outweighed the stage of evidence. Shaikh was ordered to execute a Rs 1,00,000 bond.
The Indian Opinion
The bail orders in both cases rest on prolonged incarceration and parity, not on innocence. This raises an uncomfortable truth: undertrials can rot in jail for years while trials drag on. The courts are rightly upholding personal liberty. But the real test is whether these accused will now face a speedy trial, or if the system will simply generate another round of delays. How many more will wait a decade before their day in court?
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, rediff.com
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Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
