Bail and Bonds Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Default bail accrues after 60 days or 90 days, depending on the maximum punishment for the offence.

Under the proviso to Section 167(2) of the CrPC, a Magistrate may not authorise detention beyond ninety days where the investigation relates to an offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years, and beyond sixty days for any other offence. If the charge-sheet is not filed within that period, the accused has an indefeasible right to be released on bail if he applies and is prepared to furnish it.

There is no uniform thirty-day limit, the Code sets no special 120-day period for offences against the State (longer periods exist only under special statutes such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act), and the end of the first fifteen days of custody does not by itself entitle the accused to bail.

Answer: A

Bail and custody of juveniles is dealt with in Section 18 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986, which provided that a juvenile arrested for a bailable or non-bailable offence is to be released on bail unless it would bring him into association with a criminal or expose him to moral danger.

Section 20, the next option, is about the inquiry by the juvenile court into delinquent juveniles, which is the subject of the following question. Sections 41 and 91 do not carry this heading, so the first option is the match.