Overview
- Setting aside trial, sessions and Delhi High Court orders, the bench cancelled bail and directed Dharam Pal Singh Rathore and Shiksha Rathore to surrender within two weeks.
- The ACMM and the Karkardooma sessions judge must undergo at least seven days of special training at the Delhi Judicial Academy to be arranged by the Delhi High Court chief justice.
- The Delhi Police Commissioner was ordered to personally inquire into investigating officers who downplayed the need for custodial interrogation and to take prompt action.
- The court said the magistrate’s reasoning bordered on perversity and faulted the sessions judge for ignoring binding High Court findings on the accused’s misleading conduct.
- Flagging procedural lapses, the bench noted the couple were allowed to leave court after surrender without an interim release order and clarified that pro-liberty bail principles must be applied to case-specific facts.