A Report on Guest Lecture

   “Provisions of Bail in Criminal Trials and Philosophy underlying grant of bail’’

29^th April, 2021

Organized by: Maharishi law School in coordination with IQAC

Objective of the Event: The objective was to understand the “Provisions of Bail in Criminal Trials and the Philosophy underlying the grant of bail” is multifaceted.

The School of Law of the MUIT organized a ‘Guest Lecture’ virtually on the topic ‘Provisions of Bail in Criminal Trials and Philosophy underlying grant of bail’ for the students of  B.A LLB, BBA LLB and LLB Students through Zoom platform.

The session was attended by all the students of BA LLB, BBA LLB and LLB of the School of Law. The aim was to conduct a guest lecture among the scholars and to disseminate information on the topic of “Provisions of Bail in Criminal Trials and Philosophy underlying grant of Bail”. This guest lecture provided a great insight to the concept of bail and helped students understand the provisions in an easy manner. Special Thanks to Sh. Pushpendra Dhaka for delivering such a wonderful lecture.

The main session began and the keynote speaker started explaining the bail provisions mentioned in chapter 33 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 ( section 436-439). He briefly covered the law and supported his speech with numerous landmark judgments. He talked about the relevance of amendments made in the procedural law. Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar, Hussainara Khatoon v. State of Bihar, Sushila Agarwal v. State of NCT and Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab were some of the apex court judgments which Sh. Pushpendra Dhaka discussed. He also quoted one of the statements by Justice Krishnan Iyer in a judgment that bail is the rule and jail is the exception. Apart from this, he also mentioned the rule of default bail provided by Section 167 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Dr. K. B. Asthana, Dean, MLS welcomed and facilitated the speaker with a virtual memento. The session was chaired by Sh. Pushpendra Dhaka, Advocate, Delhi High Court, Dr. K.B .Asthana, Dean, MLS, and Dr. Annu Bahl Mehra, Deputy Dean, MLS.