India’s Supreme Court held that filing a chargesheet within the statutory timeline under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita ends an accused person’s right to default bail, even if additional copies are not immediately supplied.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh ruled that non-compliance with Section 193(8) BNSS — requiring extra copies for the accused — does not vitiate a properly filed police report under Section 193(3).
Default bail under Section 187(3) arises only when investigators fail to file within 60 or 90 days, depending on the offence. Once a valid chargesheet is filed in court, that indefeasible right ceases.
The court dismissed an appeal from an accused in a Central Bureau of Investigation online-fraud case whose chargesheet was filed within time but supplied to him weeks later.
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