New Delhi, June 23 -- The Supreme Court on Monday strongly condemned the increasing trend of accused individuals securing bail by voluntarily offering to deposit large sums of money and later reneging on those promises by challenging the conditions as "onerous" or claiming their lawyers lacked authority to make such offers.
A bench, comprising Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh, while hearing a bail plea in a CGST evasion case, said, "We strongly deprecate this practice... We have to be conscious of the sanctity of the judicial process.We cannot allow parties to play tricks with the Court or permit them to take advantage of devices they themselves resort to in order to secure bail."
The Court observed that such tactics were bec...