The Supreme Court of India has set aside the orders of the Patna High Court which had suspended the life sentences and granted bail to two convicts in a 2016 murder case. A Bench comprising Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice R. Mahadevan observed that the parameters governing the suspension of sentence post-conviction are “qualitatively distinct”
Post-Conviction Sentence Suspension Requires Higher Scrutiny Than Pre-Trial Bail: Supreme Court Cancels Bail of Life Convicts
