Hearing a Special Leave Petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the Calcutta High Court’s order granting bail to the accused in the 2010 Jnaneshwari Express derailment case, the Supreme Court, on Thursday (11th December), held that the national interest lies above personal liberty.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and NK Singh criticised the Calcutta High Court for granting bail to the accused and said that “acts of barbarity cannot be excused”. “…the rights of an individual are always subservient to the nation’s interest, the High Court fell in error in granting bail,” the court noted in the judgment. “While the Constitution permits the members of the public, be it whichever group/section of society they belong to, to oppose, within the permits of the law, a s

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