Rajasthan High Court Extends ‘Community Service’ Under BNSS As Bail Condition, Asks Accused To Serve Swach Bharat Abhiyan
The Rajasthan Excessive Court docket lately enlarged an NDPS accused on bail on a situation that he contribute to authorities’s Swach Bharat mission for two hours day by day, for 2 months.
In doing so, the bench of Justice Sameer Jain prolonged the scope of ‘neighborhood service’ contemplated beneath the Bhartiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita 2023.
The Act launched neighborhood service as a punishment for sure minor offences, as a reformative method to justice.
Justice Jain stated, “as an prolonged interpretation of the provisions of ‘neighborhood service’ as enshrined beneath the Bhartiya Nayay Sanhita, and as a reformative method to re-include the accusedapplicant again within the society with a greater imaginative and prescient, intention and zeal in life, this court docket deems it match to impose an ancillary situation upon the applicant, subsequently, it’s directed that the accused-applicant shall contribute to the Swach Bharat Abhiyan.“
The accused had approached the Court docket for bail stating that he’s the only bread earner of the household, that cost sheet has been filed within the matter and that the recovered high quality of medication was lower than the prescribed amount.
The plea was thus allowed.
Title: Shivsingh Meena v State of Rajasthan
Quotation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 225
