Taking Bail Seriously - The State of Bail Jurisprudence in India

by Salman Khurshid, Siddharth Luthra, Lokendra Malik

This book is an attempt to present the actual state of affairs regulating bail jurisprudence in the country and contains a wealth of information and solutions to the unresolved and unanswered questions relating to the same. It is certainly a significant value addition to the existing literature on bail and is a highly recommended text for law students, judges, lawyers, academicians or anyone interested in reading or learning about the issues like regular bail, default bail, anticipatory bail, constitutional issues relating to bail and personal liberty.

467 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Salman Khurshid Alam Khan (born 1 January 1953) is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author and a law teacher. He was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs. He belongs to the Indian National Congress. He is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.

Born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, he is the son of Khurshed Alam Khan a former Union Minister of External affairs, Government of India, and maternal grandson of Zakir Hussain, the third President of India.

He studied in St. Xavier's High School, Patna, Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, and college at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Oxford, UK (B.A. (English and Jurisprudence), M.A., B.C.L.). He also taught as Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Oxford.

Khurshid has been deeply involved in writing and acting in plays since his student days in Delhi and Oxford. He is the author of the play Sons of Babur, published by Rupa & Co., which has been staged, with Tom Alter in the lead role, at the Red Fort in Delhi.