In Brief
The Supreme Court allowed the criminal appeal filed by 15 accused persons against the High Court's order cancelling their bail. The High Court had cancelled bail granted by the Sessions Judge, citing the judge's failure to consider material on record and the appellants' criminal antecedents, and alleging post-bail witness intimidation. The Court held that the complaint alleging witness intimidation was vague and lacked specific details about which accused threatened whom. Without concrete, detailed evidence of misconduct by individual accused, bail cannot be cancelled. The Sessions Judge's bail orders were not perverse.
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