MUMBAI: Their immature age was misused, said
Bandra Metropolitan Court
Magistrate Komalsing Rajput while granting bail to three accused in custody since January 2022 in the
Bulli Bai
app case.
The three accused are of “very tender age’’. “They are students and one of them is a girl and
orphan
,’’ said the April 12 order released on Tuesday containing detailed reasons for bail. The court said the evidence is of a “technical’’ nature and spread across the country, and as such the trial will take “substantial time’’.
It said chances of tampering are “almost nil’’ as accused have no control over the documentary-based evidence.
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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