Noting that long-term detention of an undertrial prisoner violates his fundamental right to speedy trial under Article 21 and amounts to “pre-trial punishment”, the Bombay High Court has granted bail to Tariq Parveen, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, who had been in jail for five years.
The high court took into account long incarceration and non-completion of the trial in the foreseeable future, observing that an “accused is innocent until proven guilty” rule of criminal jurisprudence cannot be taken lightly.
Parveen, arrested in a 2020 extortion case, was released from the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday.
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