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Stay on trial - valid only for 6 months
March 30 , 2018
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- The Supreme Court held that any stay of a criminal or corruption trial, or even a civil case, will be valid only for six months.
- It means trials cannot be held up for indeterminate periods just because a High Court has granted stay.
- A Bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and Rohinton F. Nariman observed that Proceedings are adjourned sine die on account of stay.
- Even after the stay is vacated, intimation is not received and proceedings are not taken up, have often led to delay and denial of the fundamental right to speedy justice.
- Supreme Court said that the order to stay trial will be extended after 6 months only in “exceptional cases” and that too in a judicial order which fully explains the reasons for the extension.
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