• Bail for 307

It all starts with a land dispute as our neighbors built a wall in a road which was used by every family in the surrounding. They started with FIR providing the name of every male member in the society who gets affected with the wall saying they are in danger of getting beaten up/killed etc by these people. One night the affected people including my family took the initiative to break that wall which started a fight and caused injuries to 3 people from our side and 1 person on their side(all by female members from their family as they threw stones/bricks from their house roofs). Our folks went for medical treatment and then went to the police, meanwhile that one person from the other side went to the police directly and asked for section 307 to be applied on most of the folks from our side. Currently 5 people from our side are in jail with 3 attempts of bail going in vain and none of the other side are in jail. That one person went to the hospital and as per the initial medical report suffered few injuries but he went ahead himself to do a CT scan on the next day which they presented in the court as a proof to keep our folks in jail. What next action can we take from our side to get our folks out and change the tide on our side?
Asked 8 years ago in Criminal Law
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1. You should have filed a suit for mandatory injunction to demolish the wall, and not done it yourself. Be that as it may, the folks on your side have to emphasize on bail alone at this stage. Since it has been denied thrice it is unlikely that it will be granted now unless there is a change in circumstances. Obtaining bail in a prosecution u/s 307 is always an uphill task.

2. If you have not moved the High Court for bail then you may do so as in such cases the bail is ordinarily refused by the courts subordinate to the HC. Everything hinges on the FIR and the material collected and presented in support of the allegations.

Ashish Davessar
Advocate, Jaipur
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Well, I am not sure why people from your side have not got bail.

This is a classic instance of cross case wherein the court takes both the cases with equal importance.

It appears your bail petition is not handled by a competent person.

If the bail is rejected from lower court then apply for the same in high court.

You can also file writ petition in high court against police inaction with regard to your FIR.

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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wait till the filing of charge sheet and after that again move an application for bail before session court U/s 439 of Cr.P.C. with the high court and supreme court Judgments in which the bail was granted to accused after filing charge sheet.

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Nadeem Qureshi
Advocate, New Delhi
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What is the reason for rejection of bail ?

2) if you are aggrieved by said order you can appeal against order rejecting bail to sessions court

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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It is difficult to answer the question without reading the FIR minutely. Injuries, though grave, do not suggest an attempt to murder. What weapon was used to hurt the complainant matters. The order admitting the accused on bail shall depend upon various facts. Notwithstanding the above said, the first attempt should be to get the accused bailed out. You have not mentioned whether you have approached High Court for the same or not.If no then approach the HC through a competent criminal lawyer.

You have not mentioned whether the Police registered a counter complaint from your side. If Police have not taken any action file a complaint before the Magistrate as per provisions of crpc.

H. S. Thukral
Advocate, New Delhi
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1. Breaking the wall by yourself is taking law in your hand. if possible show it as your resistance when they were illegally constructing a wall to block your thoroughfare.

2. Your injured people also should have filed police complaint with medical report of injury asking the police to bring the culprits to books.

3. However, challenge the order rejecting the bail petition by the lower court before the higher Court after some time.

4. If you fail to get bail from the High court, approach the Supreme Court for seeking the bail of those people.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
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Factors that could support your request to be release on your own recognizance include:

Having close family members living in the community;

Being raised in or living in the community for a number of years;

Having a job in the community;

Having no criminal history, or a criminal history that only includes small crimes and misdemeanors; and

Having a good track record of showing up to court when required in the past.

This apart, you may try to obtain bail from the sessions court or the high court on the same grounds due to which the bail was dismissed for three times by the trial court.

Krishna Iyer J., remarked that the subject of bail:-

“ ….. belongs to the blurred area of criminal justice system and largely hinges on the hunch of the bench, otherwise called judicial discretion. The Code is cryptic on this topic and the Court prefers to be tacit, be the order custodial or not. And yet, the issue is one of liberty, justice, public safety and burden of public treasury all of which insist that a developed jurisprudence of bail is integral to a socially sensitised judicial process.”

The right to bail is concommittant of the accusatorial system which favours a bail system that ordinarily enables a person to stay out of jail until a trial has found him/her guilty. In India, bail or release on personal recognizance is available as a right in bailable offences not punishable with death or life imprisonment and only to women and children in non-bailable offences punishable with death or life imprisonment.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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