Vipin Pandita vs Union Territory Of Jammu And Kashmir on 7 February, 2022
58 of
2007 and (iii) E.P. Ahammed vs State of Kerala (decided by Kerala High
Court on 19 February 2010 in Bail Application No. 633 of 2010 (supra)
relied upon by the learned counsel for the respondent do not lay down an
invariable rule of law that in non-bailable offence the bail should not be
granted to the accused. It is apt to reiterate here, that although the nature and
gravity of offences are serious against petitioner but it is not only the ground
to refuse the bail. The maximum punishment provided for the offences
indicted against the petitioner/accused is life punishment or an alternate
punishment of 10 years. Nothing has been placed on record by the
respondent showing that the petitioner/accused would tamper the prosecution
evidence or intimidate the prosecution witnesses or there is likelihood of the
offence being repeated by the accused.