Still in Jail Despite Bail: Supreme Court Orders Immediate Release, Asks U.P. to Show Cause on Compensation

The petitioner is being tried under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and was arrested on a 2025 FIR registered in Uttar Pradesh (para 3). As the Court's earlier order records, the allegations broadly centre around alleged cyber fraud and threats causing mental distress to the deceased, leading to his suicide (para 6). The Allahabad High Court had adjourned his bail application without deciding it on merits (para 6). On 28.09.2026, in Criminal Appeal No. 4621 of 2026, the Supreme Court set that order aside and released him on regular bail, on terms the trial court might impose (paras 5-6). He then filed this miscellaneous application.

The Court called it 'a very unusual case' and 'Something very disturbing', and took serious cognizance (para 2). After its order of 28.09.2026, all that the petitioner had to do was to furnish bail bonds before the Court concerned (para 7). However, the Court recorded that it appears no lawyer is ready to represent him in the Court concerned 'for the reasons which prima facie appear to be quite obvious' (para 8). The order does not state those reasons. Though ordered to be released on bail on 28.09.2026, he was still in jail (para 9). The Court therefore directed the Jail Superintendent concerned to release him immediately on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 (para 10). It called upon the State to show cause why 'appropriate compensation' should not be awarded to him for his 'illegal detention in the custody so far', noting that it had ordered release on bail 'one and a half months back' (para 11). The Registry is to send a copy of the order to the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court (para 12).