Age of an accused cannot be a criterion for granting bail to the person, said the Bombay high court while refusing to show leniency to a 76-year-old woman, who killed her month-old granddaughter as she hated her for being the third girl child born to her son. “Therefore, merely because she is a lady aged about 76 years, is not sufficient cause for releasing her on bail,” said the judge while rejecting bail plea of Janabai Rathod from Jitvi in Chandrapur district. Janabai had sought bail contending that she had been arrested only on the basis of suspicion and there was no cogent and admissible evidence implicating her in the brutal murder. The judge took into consideration the fact that the 76-year-old woman faces grave allegation of strangulating the infant to death when there was no one in the house. Janabai had sought bail contending that she had been arrested only on the basis of suspicion.

Source: Hindustan Times February 27, 2018 03:45 UTC