{"id":75130,"date":"2026-03-02T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:47:51","slug":"pre-trial-bail-granted-where-custodial-period-documentary-prosecution-and-magistrate-triable-offence-favor-release-subject-to-surety-and-no-witness-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75130","title":{"rendered":"Pre-trial bail granted where custodial period, documentary prosecution, and magistrate-triable offence favor release subject to surety and no witness interference."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-trial bail granted where custodial period, documentary prosecution, and magistrate-triable offence favor release subject to surety and no witness interference.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>High Court permitted regular bail at the pre-charge stage where the petitioner had undergone substantial custodial detention, faced allegations founded on documentary evidence, and the offence was triable by a Magistrate; the Court applied the principle that bail is ordinarily grantable absent extraordinary circumstances, noting the offence attracts a maximum punishment of five years. The petition was allowed and bail was ordered subject to furnishing bail\/surety bonds to the satisfaction of the trial or duty Magistrate, with a mandatory prohibition on threatening or influencing prosecution witnesses directly or indirectly.<br \/> TMI Updates &#8211; Highlights, quick notes, marquee, annotation, news, alerts <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=97343\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-trial bail granted where custodial period, documentary prosecution, and magistrate-triable offence favor release subject to surety and no witness interference.Case-LawsGSTHigh Court permitted regular bail at the pre-charge stage where the petitione&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}