Section 143

The Supreme Court set aside a Kerala High Court order revoking the bail of five accused in a 2021 political murder, granted two years earlier (paras 2, 4, 32). Distinguishing cancellation of bail from revocation of a perverse bail order (para 17), it held that individual liberty and the interests of the victim and the community "could have been better balanced" through stringent conditions (para 21), which it imposed (para 26).

The Supreme Court cancelled the bail granted by the Karnataka High Court to seven accused, including a film actor, in a 2024 murder case (paras 2, 26). It distinguished annulment of a perverse bail order from cancellation for post-bail misconduct (para 18) and held that "An unsustainable bail order does not become valid with the mere passage of time or the subsequent behaviour of the accused" (para 20).

The Rajasthan High Court quashed an FIR under Sections 448, 427 and 143 IPC against a woman accused of trying to cross barricades put up by temple trustees, holding that seeking access to a public temple is a lawful act and the allegations disclosed no criminal intent (paras 6, 10). Private trustees cannot restrict worship in breach of Article 25, and the video and photographs showed no force or damage (paras 7, 9, 12-13).