The Union’s approach to defer bail pleas by a year was rejected by the Bench, paving the way for bail under the stringent statute

The UAPA reference on the face of it has to only weigh the liberty consideration. Five years worth of cases suggest more nuances

Two coordinate Benches read K.A. Najeeb differently; the Court referred the question and granted interim bail to two accused.

The selective reading of liberty in UAPA and PMLA cases hinges on the accused’s identity. A ‘Khalid Test’ could offer a course correction

The Court noted the prolonged incarceration without trial of political leaders and activists arrested under special criminal statutes

By drawing on the ‘bail is rule, jail is exception’ proposition in a PMLA case again, the Court may have softened its 2022 interpretation

Even as Justice Kant held that CBI complied with the conditions of arrest, Justice Bhuyan doubted the intent behind the timing of arrest

Kejriwal’s counsel argued that the CBI’s last minute arrest was like an “insurance arrest”

The top court dismissed the Enforcement Directorate’s challenge to the High Court’s order reasoning that it was “well reasoned”

The Supreme Court granted interim bail to Kejriwal. Meanwhile, the legality of his arrest was referred to a larger bench

A Vacation Bench permitted the Delhi CM to file a fresh petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s stay

The Supreme Court heard a challenge to the Delhi High Court’s interim stay on Arvind Kejriwal’s bail order by the trial court