The bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Shyam Chandak said that invoking the MCOCA against the petitioner, Omkar Tingre, at the young age of 23 years, "for this solitary offence would brand him as a dreaded criminal".

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday (November 27) granted six months bail to a pregnant prisoner for her delivery, observing that delivering the child in the jail atmosphere

A single bench of Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke in the order passed on November 27 said even a prisoner is entitled to dignity, and delivering a child in prison may have consequences.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has granted six months temporary bail to a pregnant woman, arrested in a drugs case, noting that delivering a child in prison atmosphere would impact both the mother and the baby.