Indiran v. The Deputy Superintendent of Police
Case brief
What is this about?
Index terms: surrender; same-day bail application; direction to Special Court; Section 18 bar, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989; Section 15-A victims' opportunity; Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita; Section 482 Cr.P.C; Special Judge for SC & ST (POA) Act cases, Tiruvannamalai; Crime No.6 of 2026; Ponnur Police Station; Indiran; Banupriya. Relevant when researching Madras High Court orders directing a Special Judge to take up surrender and consider bail on the same day notwithstanding the Section 18 bar, with safeguard of hearing victims under Section 15-A.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the learned Special Judge for SC & ST (POA) Act cases, District and Sessions Court, Tiruvannamalai District, to consider the petitioners' bail application(s) preferably on the same day of their surrender in connection with Crime No.6 of 2026 and to pass appropriate orders in accordance with law, after affording due opportunity to the victims under Section 15-A of the SC/ST (POA) Act, 1989; petitioners to surrender before the jurisdictional Court within fifteen days.