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2020 (6) TMI 743 - MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURTTerritorial Jurisdiction - Seeking grant of transit bail - protection of individual with an anticipatory bail of limited duration so as to enable him to approach the appropriate court vested with territorial jurisdiction to pass a regular order under section 438 or 439 Cr.P.C. - HELD THAT:- The Covid pandemic has taught us that much can be done effectively without physical movement and personal interaction. The advances in Information and Communication Technology has ensured that contacting a lawyer in another States is no longer a harrowing experience. Bar Associations in most States and even the districts, have directories listing the names of lawyers and websites of lawyers, also disclose their proficiencies. This too, only in a situation where it is not possible to get the reference of a lawyer through word of mouth. This Court is of the firm opinion, that the practice of entertaining applications for “Transit Bail” is passé. It was a procedure having no statutory sanction, yet justifiable in a bygone era when poor logistics, transportation and dismal communication saw persons being arrested by the police of another State even before such a person could move the Sessions Court or the High Court having territorial jurisdiction to entertain his application for anticipatory bail. It is no longer so. The practice of “Transit Bail” by which the High Court or the Sessions Court could pass an order of anticipatory bail for a limited duration to enable the person to approach the appropriate court to seek an proper order of anticipatory bail or bail, has ceased to have any utility in the present day India. The Applicant herein can effectively pursue his remedy by moving an application before the appropriate Court in the State of Rajasthan from the comfort of his home in Jabalpur requiring nothing more than a rectangular device called a ‘Smart Phone’ - application is not maintainable before this Court and is dismissed.
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