Judges should use a sense of robust common sense in bail petitions: CJI D Y Chandrachud

Bengaluru: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Sunday said the trial judges prefer playing safe by not granting bail on important issues of crime when it is looked at with a degree of suspicion.

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The Chief Justice underlined the need for a ‘sense of robust common sense’ to look at the nitty-gritty of each case.

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"People who should be getting bail in the trial courts and not getting it there, as a result of which, they have to invariably move the high courts. People who should be getting bail in the high courts will not necessarily get it, as a result of which, they have to move to the Supreme Court. This delay compounds the problem of those who are facing arbitrary arrests," Justice Chandrachud said.

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