The Allahabad High Court has observed that every prisoner has a fundamental right to file an application for bail and courts cannot remain a mute spectator when legal aid is denied to prisoners before them.
Justice Ajay Bhanot made the observation while granting bail to one Anil Gaur, who is in jail in a murder case in district Jaunpur.
The counsel for the applicant submitted that though he was not named in the FIR, Gaur has been in jail since 6 December, 2017.
According to the applicant, he did not have access to legal aid to file his bail application before the trial court as well as the high court.