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‘Interest of society may outweigh personal liberty’: Why accused in Zubeen Garg case was refused bail

The Indian Express·Sukrita Baruah·3 days ago
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The Gauhati High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Shyamkanu Mahanta, one of those accused in a case connected to the death of superstar singer Zubeen Garg . While rejecting the bail, the court observed that “it is possible in a given situation, the interest of society may outweigh personal liberty”, and also cited other grounds, such as “flight risk”, the risk of evidence tampering and influencing of witnesses, and “the gravity of the offence”. Mahanta is one of seven accused arrested in connection with Garg’s death in September last year , and one of the four against whom there are murder charges. On Thursday, the fast-track court hearing the case had framed charges against all seven on the offences under which they had been chargesheeted. The lower court has so far rejected all the bail pleas in connection with the case, and the fast-track court had on Friday rejected the bail plea of another accused, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami.…

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