{"id":19725,"date":"2024-01-25T01:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:58:56","slug":"default-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/default-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Default Bail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>About Default Bail:<\/li>\n<li>The Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) provides for three kinds of bail. Section 438 provides for Anticipatory Bail, Section 439 provides for Regular bail whereas Section 167(2) provides for default\/statutory bail.<\/li>\n<li>Default bail, also\u00a0known as statutory bail, is a type of bail which accrues as a right to an accused detained in custody,\u00a0when the police fail to or are unable to\u00a0complete the investigation\u00a0and file the chargesheet within the time frame\u00a0stipulated under the law.<\/li>\n<li>When a person is arrested under any section of any act,\u00a0there is an\u00a0obligation on the arresting authority to complete the investigation within a specified time. This period\u00a0is mandatory, and not obligatory.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0statutory time frame for completing the investigation of offences under the IPC, and for filing of the charge sheet\u00a0varies depending on the gravity of the offence.\n<ul>\n<li>For offences punishable\u00a0with imprisonment up to 10 years, the\u00a0investigation must be completed within 60 days\u00a0of arrest.<\/li>\n<li>For\u00a0offences punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or\u00a0imprisonment for more than 10 years, the investigation\u00a0must be completed within 90 days of arrest (excluding investigation\/arrests made under special statutes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, when a person is arrested and the\u00a0police is not able to complete investigation within the specified period,\u00a0it is their default, and\u00a0the arrested person cannot be kept behind bars beyond this period.\u00a0This entitlement is called default bail.<\/li>\n<li>This is\u00a0enshrined in Section 167(2) of the CrPC, where it is not possible for the police to complete an investigation in time.<\/li>\n<li>Principles:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a right, regardless of the nature of the crime.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0stipulated period within which the charge sheet has to be filed\u00a0begins from the day the accused is remanded for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0includes days spent in both police and judicial custody, but not days spent in house-arrest.<\/li>\n<li>For an accused to be entitled to default bail, the\u00a0accused must have been in custody during the entire statutory period\u00a0for the investigation, and the accused must not have been released on bail during that period.<\/li>\n<li>A requirement for the grant of statutory bail is that the right\u00a0should be claimed by the person in custody.<\/li>\n<li>If the charge sheet is not filed within the stipulated period,\u00a0but there is no application for bail under Section 167(2),\u00a0there is no automatic bail.<\/li>\n<li>Once the accused files an application for bail under Section 167(2), it is considered that\u00a0he\/she has enforced the right to be released on default bail.<\/li>\n<li>This right only comes\u00a0into place\u00a0after the stipulated time limit\u00a0for investigation has expired.<\/li>\n<li>If the accused fails to apply for default bail after the investigation time period has expired\u00a0and the investigating agency files a charge-sheet or seeks more time before the accused makes such an application for default bail, then the right to default bail is no longer applicable.\u00a0The Magistrate can then grant further time for the completion of the investigation.<\/li>\n<li>However, the\u00a0accused may still be released on bail under other legal provisions of the Code.<\/li>\n<li>The default bail is\u00a0not liable to be cancelled even after the completion of the investigation and the submission of the charge sheet. The default bail can be\u00a0cancelled only on the grounds\u00a0and considerations\u00a0on which a regular bail can be cancelled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Default Bail as Fundamental Right:\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Supreme Court, while hearing an appeal regarding default bail,\u00a0said that default bail under the first proviso of Section 167(2) of the CrPC.\u00a0is a fundamental right and not merely a statutory right as it is, a procedure established by law under Article 21 of the Constitution.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Charge-sheet?<\/h3>\n<p>Charge sheet refers to a formal police record showing the names of each person brought into custody, the nature of the accusations, and the identity of the accusers.A charge sheet is distinct from the First Information Report (FIR), which is the core document that describes a crime that has been committed. It usually refers to one or more FIRs and charges an individual or organization for (some or all of) the crimes specified in those FIR(s). Once the charge sheet has been submitted to a court of law, prosecution proceedings against the accused begin in the judicial system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/top-stories\/default-bail-cant-be-claimed-on-ground-investigation-pending-against-other-accused-supreme-court-wadhwans-dhfl-case-247515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Default Bail Can&#8217;t Be Claimed On Ground That Investigation Is Pending Against Other Accused: Supreme Court Sets Aside Bail To Wadhwans In DHFL Case<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Default bail accrues as a right to an accused detained in custody, when the police fail to complete the investigation within the time frame stipulated under the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19725","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\/19725","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=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}