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ARTICLE · 16 NOVEMBER 2021

Anticipatory Bail Law In India

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Anticipatory bail, as the name suggests, is bail granted to a person in anticipation and apprehending arrest.

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Vijay Pal Dalmia
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Sanjana Leekha
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By Vijay Pal Dalmia, Advocate
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Anticipatory bail, as the name suggests, is bail granted to a person in anticipation and apprehending arrest. It is a preventive relief which was not originally included in The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ('CrPC'). The necessity for granting anticipatory bail arises mainly because sometimes influential persons try to implicate their rivals in false cases for the purpose of disgracing them or for other purposes by getting them detained in jail for some days. Apart from false cases, where there are reasonable grounds for holding that a person accused of an offence is not likely to abscond, or otherwise misuse his liberty while on bail, there seems no justification to require

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