Exaggerated concern for Human rights of convicts is at the cost of Interest of the Society: SC

It has not hitherto fore even been considered that Section 482 of the CrPC should be applied in circumstances of the wilful abscondence of the Appellant/convict in contumacious and deliberate disregard and disobedience of the terms and conditions on which he was enlarged on bail or exempted from surrender. The discussion would not be complete without noticing the Orders in Parasuram Patel v. State of Orissa, (1994) 4 SCC 664 and Madan Lal Kapoor v. Rajiv Thapar, (2007) 7 SCC 623. In neither of these cases had the Appellate Court taken steps available to it to ensure the attendance of the Appel...