Deputy AG murder case
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 3: In a criminal appeal filed by three convicts challenging life-imprisonment awarded by the Trial Court in much publicized Deputy AG Ajit Dogra murder case, Division Bench of High Court comprising Justice Tashi Rabstan and Justice Javed Iqbal Wani has dismissed the bail applications and declined to suspend the sentence.
After hearing AAG Aseem Sawhney appearing for the UT administration, the DB observed that appeals of the applicants have been filed in the year 2020-2021 itself and the period of five years has not yet elapsed as such, the applicants cannot be held entitled to the concession of bail at this stage.
“Even otherwise also assuming the period of five years was over, yet bail could not be granted to the applicants as a matter of course by this court during the pendency of their appeals in view of ratio laid down by the Apex Court in “Preet Pal Singh’s and “Masood Ali Khan’s” cases”, the DB said.
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