In Brief
Gulzar Ahmed Wani sought bail in a Special Leave Petition after spending 14 years in custody as an undertrial, with only six out of 96 prosecution witnesses examined. The Supreme Court found the inordinate delay in trial unjust. It granted the petitioner bail effective 1 November 2017, giving the prosecution a final opportunity to complete examination of material witnesses by 31 October 2017. The order recognized the petitioner's acquittals in nine of eleven criminal cases and the unreasonable length of his undertrial detention as grounds for bail relief."> </invoke>
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