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Menon Ekka @ Smt. Menon Ujjana Ekka vs Union of India

Criminal Appeal · Not availableDecided 14 Oct 2022

Criminal Appeal No. 1744 of 2022

M.R. Shah · Krishna Murari

Background

The appellant, a woman, was convicted along with her husband for offences under Section 109 IPC and Sections 13(1)(e) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (possession of disproportionate assets), and sentenced to 7 years' rigorous imprisonment. She had already served about 2 years and 9 months of that sentence. The Jharkhand High Court, while her substantive appeal against conviction was pending, refused to release her on interim bail. She approached the Supreme Court against that refusal.

Decision Breakdown

The Supreme Court, noting that the appellant was a woman who had already undergone roughly 2 years and 9 months of her sentence, and that her appeal (along with those of co-accused) was unlikely to be heard soon, granted her interim bail during the pendency of her appeal before the High Court, on conditions to be set by the trial court. The Court made clear this relief was granted solely because she was a woman accused who had served a substantial part of her sentence, and expressly stated the order should not be treated as a precedent for the other co-accused. It also directed the High Court to list and finally decide the connected criminal appeals (Nos. 326-328 of 2020) within six months, and directed all parties to cooperate in the speedy disposal of those appeals.

Lesson Learnt

Courts may grant interim bail to a convict during the pendency of an appeal where a long period of the sentence has already been served and the appeal itself is unlikely to be heard soon, but such relief is fact-specific — tied here to the appellant being a woman with a long undertrial/post-conviction period served — and is not automatically available to co-accused in the same case.

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