Parmod KumarNew Delhi, July 3 -- The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of conspiring to murder her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi, during their honeymoon in Meghalaya last year, on a plea by the Meghalaya government challenging the bail granted to her by the trial court and subsequently upheld by the State High Court.
A vacation Bench of Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice Sheel Nagu, however, declined to suspend the bail, observing "If she is released already, then we cannot order her arrest again. We thought she was not released."Reiterating the settled principle governing grant of bail, the Court remarked: "However heinous the crime is, bail is the rule, jail is an exception."Declining the State's reques...