Anu H. Kirutthika, BA. LLB (Hons.), ICFAI Law School, IFHE, Hyderabad
ABSTRACT
The provision of Section 438 of Criminal Procedure Code was one of the rights which was scrapped during the 1975 emergency by the then Prime minister Indira Gandhi which led to suspension of personal liberty led to a state of curtailed freedoms and arbitrary arrests, as the government exercised unprecedented powers to suppress dissent and political opposition. It took several years for the Legal system to reinstate all the fundamental rights and recover from the impact of Emergency. But it took 43 years of struggle to reintroduce the provision of Anticipatory bail in the state of Uttar Pradesh as it was essential to ensure that the provision was properly defined and implemented to strike a balance between personal liberty and the interests of justice.
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