{"id":17228,"date":"2023-11-21T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17228"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:28:20","slug":"anticipatory-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/anticipatory-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Anticipatory Bail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is a Bail?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bail is a\u00a0judicial release of an accused person from custody\u00a0on the\u00a0condition that the\u00a0accused person will appear in court at a later date.<\/li>\n<li>Sections 436 to 439 of the\u00a0Criminal Procedure Code deal with the concept of Bail.<\/li>\n<li>Under the CrPC, bail\u00a0can be granted to an accused person either by a police officer or by a judicial magistrate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0What is an Anticipatory Bail?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0bail granted to a person in anticipation and apprehending arrest.<\/li>\n<li>Under Section 438 of CrPC,\u00a0any individual who discerns that he may be tried for a non-bailable offense can apply for anticipatory bail.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0application shall be made to the High Court or Sessions Court, where the crime is alleged to be committed.<\/li>\n<li>Anticipatory Bail\u00a0is bail before the arrest, and\u00a0the police can&#8217;t arrest an individual if the Court has granted anticipatory Bail.<\/li>\n<li>It is meant to be a\u00a0safeguard for a person who has false accusation or charges made against him\/her, most commonly due to professional or personal enmity, as it ensures the release of the falsely accused person even before he\/she is arrested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Transit Anticipatory Bail<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A transit anticipatory bail is\u00a0sought when a case against a person has been or is likely to be filed in a state different from the one\u00a0in which the person is likely to be arrested.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of transit bail is to allow the person bail,\u00a0so they can approach the appropriate court in the state in which the case has been filed for anticipatory bail.<\/li>\n<li>In the absence of transit anticipatory bail, the result would be that another state\u2019s police could arrest a person from their home state without them having the opportunity to apply for anticipatory bail at all.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0procedure to be followed in transit anticipatory bail is exactly the\u00a0same as of any other anticipatory bail application.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0concept of transit anticipatory bail is not codified in Indian law but has\u00a0found its identity through judicial practice and legal precedents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a default bail?<\/h3>\n<p>Also known as statutory bail, this is a right to bail that accrues when the police fail to complete investigation within a specified period in respect of a person in judicial custody. This is enshrined in Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) where it is not possible for the police to complete an investigation in 24 hours, the police produce the suspect in court and seek orders for either police or judicial custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/top-stories\/supreme-court-judgment-anticipatory-bail-cases-registered-different-states-territorial-jurisdiction-section-438-crpc-242557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>High Courts, Session Courts Can Grant Interim\/Transit Anticipatory Bail Even When FIR Is Registered In Another State: Supreme Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anticipatory Bail is the bail granted to a person in anticipation and apprehending arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}