https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182656 A statutory right to default bail under section 167 CrPC survives only until the challan is filed; if the accused does not avail of that right before filing, it is extinguished and custody thereafter is governed by bail on merits. In computing the prescribed custody period, the relevant date is the arrest or detention in the same case and transaction, not an earlier arrest in a separate FIR. The Court therefore treated the later arrest as the operative starting point for custody computation and held that the accused could seek bail afresh only on merits. en-us Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 16 May 2016 18:24:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182656 A statutory right to default bail under section 167 CrPC survives only until the challan is filed; if the accused does not avail of that right before filing, it is extinguished and custody thereafter is governed by bail on merits. In computing the prescribed custody period, the relevant date is the arrest or detention in the same case and transaction, not an earlier arrest in a separate FIR. The Court therefore treated the later arrest as the operative starting point for custody computation and held that the accused could seek bail afresh only on merits. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=182656