New Delhi, Sep 29 (PTI) The Supreme Court has observed while protection of individual liberty was important, courts must not turn a "blind eye" to the suffering of the victims.

Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, therefore, set aside a March 2024 order of the Patna High Court that granted anticipatory bail to two accused in a murder case.

The top court expressed a "sincere concern" with the haste with which the high court dealt with the matter.

"While the scheme of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (now Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023) provides concurrent jurisdiction to the high court and sessions court for entertaining applications for anticipatory bail, this court has time and again observed that high court should always encourage exhausting an alternative/concurrent remedy

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