reiterated the said position of law by relying upon earlier judgments in the cases of Hussainara Khatoon & Ors. v/s. State of Bihar, 1981 SCC 81, Kadra Pehadiya & Ors. v/s. State of Bihar, 1981 3 SCC 671, Union of India v/s. K. A. Najeeb, (2021) 3 SCC 713 and Satender Kumar Antil v/s. Central Bureau of Investigation and Anr., (2022) 10 SCC 51 . In the aforesaid judgment, the Supreme Court has further clarified that even in cases, where the accused under-trials are facing prosecution under special statutes, wherein the threshold for granting bail is very high, Constitutional Courts ought to exercise their power in favour of accused undertrials, who have suffered long incarceration and there is no possibility of the trial being completed within reasonable period of time. This is recognized as the right of the accused under-trials for speedy trial under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. In the present case, the applicants/ accused under-trials are facing prosecution for IPC offences. They have all suffered long periods of incarceration, ranging from 13 years and 4 months to 13 years and 6 months, and in the circumstances noted hereinabove, there does not appear to be any possibility of trial being completed within a reasonable period of time, despite the fact that the trial in the present case has indeed reached at an advanced stage. Due to the stay of the trial in the light of the mandate under Section 10 of the MCOCA, further progress can take place only after MCOC Special Case No. 576 of 2020 is decided by the concerned Special Court. As noted hereinabove, the stage of the said trial in the MCOC Special Case is that only charge has been framed and the
