{"id":23619,"date":"2024-05-22T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23619"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:58:50","slug":"section-436a-of-crpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/section-436a-of-crpc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Section 436A of the CrPC:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was introduced in the CrPC, 1973, vide an amendment in 2005.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>As per Section 436A CrPC, <strong>a person who<\/strong> has <strong>spent one half of<\/strong> the <strong>maximum period of <\/strong>the prescribed<strong> sentence as an under trial shall be released on bail.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It states that where a person has, during the period of investigation, inquiry, or trial under the CrPC, 1973, of an offence under any law (<strong>not being an offence for which <\/strong>the <strong>punishment of death has been specified<\/strong> as one of the punishments under that law) undergone detention for a period extending up to one-half of the maximum period of imprisonment specified for that offence under that law, he <strong>shall be released by the Court on his personal bond with or without sureties.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Provided that the <strong>Court may, after hearing the Public Prosecutorand<\/strong> for <strong>reasons to berecorded<\/strong> by it in writing, <strong>order the continued detention<\/strong> of such person for a period <strong>longer than one-half of the said period<\/strong> or release him on bail instead of the personal bond with or without sureties.<\/li>\n<li>Provided further that <strong>no such persons hall<\/strong>, in any case, <strong>be detained <\/strong>during the period of investigation, inquiry, or trial <strong>for more than the maximum period of imprisonment provided for<\/strong> the said offence under that law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>In computing<\/strong> the <strong>period of detention<\/strong> under this Section for granting bail, the period of detention passed due to<strong> delay in proceeding caused by the accused shall be excluded.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-supreme-court-of-india-sc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court (SC)<\/a> held that Section 436A would <strong>apply to the Special Actsalso<\/strong> in the absence of any specific provision.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/pmla-undertial-bail-supreme-court-9343306\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PMLA accused who has spent half of maximum sentence as undertrial can be given bail: SC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per Section 436A CrPC, a person who has spent one half of the maximum period of the prescribed sentence as an undertrial shall be released on bail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23619","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\/23619","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=23619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}