Bail
Placement of applications to the same Judge where matter pertaining to same FIR—When the bail matters are assigned to different Benches and when those bail applications arise out of same FIR and if such application are heard by different benches, it leads to an anomalous situation, inasmuch as some of benches grant bail whereas some of them take a different view—If in a particular High Court, the bail applications are assigned to different single Judge/Bench, in that event, all the applications arising out of same FIR should be placed before one learned Judge—This would ensure that there is a consistency in the views taken by the learned judge in different bail applications arising out of the same FIR—If on account of change of the roster, the learned Judge who was earlier dealing with the bail matters is not taking up the bail matters, such direction would not be applicable—It is expected that in order to maintain consistency in the views taken by the court, the learned Judge, who will hear the subsequent applications filed for bail, may give due weightage to the views taken by the earlier judge, who had dealt with the bail applications arising out of the same FIR.
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