Supreme Court deplores parties offering to deposit bail amount, later calling it 'onerous'
A bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh said while the apex court was conscious of the rights of an individual under Article 21 of the Constitution, it had to be equally conscious of the "sanctity of the judicial process".
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