However, state advocate-general D.C. Raina, who denied having seen the new bond, defended it as “absolutely” legal. A copy of the standard bond potential troublemakers can be asked to sign under Section 107 of the CrPC. It says: “…I …have been called upon to enter into a bond to keep the peace for the term of…. Under the standard Section 107 bond, called the “Bond to Keep the Peace”, potential troublemakers have to undertake “not to commit a breach of peace” or “do an act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace”. “This (bond) is all new.… They can make changes but those changes have to be in accordance with the law,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph October 19, 2019 19:53 UTC