Take action against persons giving surety bail, says SC

“It is the bounden duty cast upon the Judge not merely to ensure that an innocent person is not punished but equally not to become a mute spectator to the spectacle of convict circumventing his conviction,” the bench said. 

The criminal justice delivery system, the court said “is being held to ransom by convicts who disappeared after getting bail and who have developed the devious and dishonest practice of escaping punishment or sentence by filing appeals, obtaining bail or suspension of sentence, and thereafter disappearing beyond the reach of the arms of the law.”