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Court Must Safeguard Personal Liberty of Accused If Trial Is Delayed: SC

Times Now India · DistrictNews · 2026-09-29

Court Must Safeguard Personal Liberty of Accused If Trial Is Delayed: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said pre-trial incarceration cannot masquerade as punitive detention, particularly when commencement and conclusion of the trial were not imminent. The observation came from a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu while granting bail to two accused in a 2024 case relating to alleged financial irregularities within the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in Rajasthan.

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