https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=300943 Anticipatory bail was granted because the prosecution material was found insufficient to establish a prima facie case of conspiracy at the bail stage. The accusations rested mainly on co-accused disclosure statements and a belated witness account of a vague conversation, without any direct overt act attributed to the accused. The Court held that disclosure statements alone were not cogent material, and the witness statement was too uncertain, lacking date or time, to justify continued custodial exposure. Careful scrutiny of the accused's role was required before curtailing liberty, and that threshold was not met. en-us Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:28:43 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=300943 Anticipatory bail was granted because the prosecution material was found insufficient to establish a prima facie case of conspiracy at the bail stage. The accusations rested mainly on co-accused disclosure statements and a belated witness account of a vague conversation, without any direct overt act attributed to the accused. The Court held that disclosure statements alone were not cogent material, and the witness statement was too uncertain, lacking date or time, to justify continued custodial exposure. Careful scrutiny of the accused's role was required before curtailing liberty, and that threshold was not met. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=300943