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High Court and Trial Court have forgotten bail is a matter of right

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  Sending an important message to the Courts across the country, the Supreme Court recently lamented that the High Courts and Trial Courts have forgotten that bail cannot be denied as a punishment."Over a period of time, the trial courts and the High Courts have forgotten a very well settled principle of law that bail is not to be withheld as a punishment," observed a bench comprising Justices [(Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh Vs. State of Maharashtra Judgement on Bail ) (Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh Vs. State of Maharashtra Judgement on Bail - Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh Vs. State of Maharashtra , p1) . https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rrKRCnT9Y8Qe1lipiXGq2x1Vew9u7fIl/view?usp=drivesdk

No permission of Court is required for passport even if criminal is under investigation or pending for trail in Court Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench Writ C No. 5587 of 2024 (Umapati Vs. union of India & Ors) Justice Alok Mathur and Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal J

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  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k38ZX85i9zEI39YQzcCVX33qlxX1pwZZ/view?usp=drivesdk 1.  Allahabad High Court sitting at Lucknow has held that pass port authority has no power to kept pending the passport application of citizens  2. Time bound disposal is mandatory  3. Pendency of criminal case is no ground to pending and kept the matter in pending  4. Pass port is right of citizen  5. Holding passport is fundamental right of citizens