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State Of Uttar Pradesh vs Abdul Samad & Another on 16 March, 1962

84. Therefore, while ordinarily, the Magistrate is the original court which would exercise power to remand under Section 167, the exercise of power by the superior courts which would result in custody being ordered ordinarily (police or judicial custody) by the superior courts which includes the High Court, would indeed be the custody for the purpose of calculating the period within which the charge-sheet must be filed, failing which the accused acquires the statutory right to default bail. We have also noticed the observations of this Court in State of U.P. v. Abdul Samad [State of U.P. v. Abdul Samad, 1962 SCC OnLine SC 40 : AIR 1962 SC 1506]. In such circumstances broken periods of custody can be counted whether custody is suffered by the order of the Magistrate or superior courts, if investigation remains incomplete after the custody, whether continuous or broken periods pieced together reaches the requisite period; default bail becomes the right of the detained person.
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