Can’t Allow Incarceration Of Accused For Long Time Without Trial: Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court said advocates will not seek unnecessary adjournments in this case.New Delhi: The Supreme Court has granted bail to two accused lodged in jail for four years in a criminal case in West Bengal, saying it cannot permit the situation to prevail where a person is kept incarcerated for a long time without a trial.The top court observed that even the first witness of the prosecution is yet to be examined in the 2018 case relating to the alleged seizure of 414 kg of contraband 'Ganja'.The court, however, said if the appellants seek to delay the trial, "we permit the trial court to put back the appellants into incarceration".A bench of justices S K Kaul and P S Narasimha noted that a charge sheet was filed and charges have been framed, but the case was not proceeding fur...