In Brief
A man charged with murdering his wife and staging it as a car accident appealed against a High Court order granting him bail. The prosecution, supported by CBI investigation and expert reports (AIIMS, CRRI, CFSL, IIT), alleged premeditated murder. The Supreme Court upheld the bail, holding that expert reports based on photographs rather than the actual body cannot receive conclusive weight at the bail stage—their evidentiary value must be tested at trial. The Court emphasized that bail is the general rule, not the exception, and that the High Court properly considered relevant factors, including a nine-day delay in filing the FIR and no suspicion raised during the post-mortem. The Court declined to conduct an in-depth examination of expert evidence at the bail stage.
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