931 criminal bail pleas, 141 petitions to suspend sentence pending in Supreme Court as on December 18, 2020: RTI reply

Activist Saket Gokhale had filed an RTI application seeking to know how many bail matters relating to criminal cases were pending in the top court after journalist Arnab Goswami got an immediate hearing in his bail plea.

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Debayan Roy

The Registry of the Supreme Court of India has informed that there are 931 bail and anticipatory bail petitions pending as on December 18, in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by activist Saket Gokhale. This figure of 931 also includes interim bail petitions.

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