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Shivinder gets bail, HC tells ED accused can't be held on 'hunch'


Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh
25 Jul 2020
Categories: Latest News Corporate Law News

Noting that an accused can’t be kept in the custody only because of a “hunch or a presumption” that he would impede trial even when the chargesheet has been filed, the Delhi high court on Thursday granted bail to former promoter of Fortis

Healthcare Shivinder Mohan Singh in a money laundering case, on a personal bond of Rs 1 crore, reports Abhinav Garg.

The HC took a dim view of the ED’s stand that Singh should not get bail and said, “Nowhere is it the law that an accused, yet to be tried, is to be kept in custody only on a hunch or a presumption that he will prejudice or impede trial; or to send any message to society”.

The HC added, “If anything, the only message that goes out to society by keeping an accused in prison before finding him guilty is that our system works only on impressions and conjectures, and can keep an accused in custody even on presumption of guilt.”

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