The Supreme Court today granted bail to a man booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act who was kept in custody for over 2 years without filing of a chargesheet.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta heard the matter. After going through the material, Justice Mehta rapped the Assam counsel over petitioner's detention for over 2 years without a chargesheet having been filed.

The bench noted that under Section 43D of the UAPA, time for filing chargesheet can be extended "by express order of the Court" to a maximum of 180 days. But in the present case, the petitioner had been subjected to over 2 years custody, without filing of chargesheet.

"Provisions of default bail as are applicable to UAPA being Section 43D read as below...apparently, going by the plain langua

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