In his note, Gowda had remarked that though the judiciary adopts a very elaborate procedure to deal with matters related to grant of bail “still the system has the general perception among people that grant or denial is highly unpredictable…
the bail system is linked inextricably to property and financial well-being of the accused, meaning thereby that accused persons with means.”
Noting that there is “growing dissatisfaction” about the system of grant of bail, he said that though it is a uniform and reasonable provision in theory “in practice it does not prove to be so”.
Noting that the occupancy in Indian prisons has been reported to be consisting of one-third of convicts and two-third of undertrials, he said, “It is a sad state of affairs”.
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