New Delhi, 16th May 2023: Indian Supreme Court today ruled that denying bail when its due is an act of ‘intellectual dishonesty.’
The court refused to grant an urgent hearing to a UP officer who was sent back to the state judicial academy for denying bail, which is an apparent breach of the SC guidelines.
‘If dishonesty in granting bail is a problem, it is also a form of dishonesty not to grant bail in cases where they are due…it is intellectual dishonesty, declared the bench led by justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul.
On Monday, senior attorney PS Patwalia, representing the judicial officer, submitted the Lucknow judge’s most serious problem before the bench.
“The judicial officer is scheduled to retire on June 30, and he is under consideration for appointment as a judge in the Allahabad high court,” Patwalia said the bench. The senior lawyer further stated that the judicial officer has served for more than three decades.
“He was appointed in 1990,” Patwalia emphasised, to which the bench retorted by saying that makes it all the more reason for the officer to have been more careful.
