-Saranya Ravindran Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure [CrPC] empowers the Sessions Court and the High Court to grant anticipatory bail, i.e., the direction to release a person on bail in the event of an arrest on a non-bailable offense. Section 18 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (the Atrocities … Continue reading Restricting Anticipatory Bail under the Atrocities Act