In Brief
Bharatbhai Bharwad challenged the High Court's order declining to interfere with a trial court's grant of bail to two accused in a case involving serious injuries inflicted by sword attacks. The Supreme Court held that the High Court wrongly treated a challenge to the discretionary grant of bail as an application for cancellation of bail. The Court clarified that cancellation of bail requires supervening circumstances like evidence tampering or witness threats, while challenging the grant of bail on arbitrary exercise grounds requires examining whether discretion was exercised judiciously considering relevant facts and offence gravity. The Court set aside the High Court's orders and remitted the matter for fresh consideration.
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