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Admission by request and introduction Vol. I · Edition I · Forthcoming

Edition I · Forthcoming

An associate who has read the judgments.

The reading is done before you open the file. Preceda prepares the draft from the judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, with every authority quoted from its source or marked for you to check.

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Edition I admits its first hundred members, by request and introduction.

01The specimen

Counsel states the objective. Preceda prepares the matter.

One page of an anticipatory bail application under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, as the associate prepared it in a test matter. Read the margin.

In the Court of the Sessions Judge (South), Saket Courts, New Delhi Draft Bail Appln. No. ____ of 2026

Application for anticipatory bail under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Kabir Sethi v. State (NCT of Delhi)

1

The Applicant, Kabir Sethi, son of parentage withheld, resident of address withheld, New Delhi, apprehends arrest in FIR No. 000/2026 registered at Police Station police station withheld under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The FIR arises out of a commercial dispute between his company and Northwind Systems Pvt. Ltd. over a software implementation.

VERIFY Date of the FIR: not in the record.

2

The Applicant has not been arrested and has made no earlier application for bail in this FIR. He has received a notice of appearance under Section 35(3) of the Sanhita and undertakes to join the investigation.

quoted s. 35(3) BNSS

Paragraphs 3 to 5 are omitted from this specimen.

Grounds

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Section 482 empowers this Hon’ble Court to direct that, in the event of arrest on an accusation of a non-bailable offence, the Applicant “shall be released on bail”, on such conditions as the Court thinks fit.

quoted s. 482(1) BNSS

7

The offence alleged is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to seven years. The directions in Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273, therefore govern: they “shall not only apply to the cases under Section 498-A IPC … but also such cases where offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may be less than seven years or which may extend to seven years” (para 12).

quoted Arnesh Kumar, para 12

8

The Supreme Court has since required courts to “satisfy themselves on the compliance of Sections 41 and 41-A of the Code”, non-compliance entitling the accused to bail: Satender Kumar Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation, (2022) 10 SCC 51, para 100.3. Those provisions are re-enacted in Section 35 of the Sanhita.

quoted Antil, para 100.3

9

The Applicant has no criminal antecedents, has deep roots in Delhi, and is not a flight risk. The documents relied upon are in the complainant’s own possession; no recovery is to be effected from him.

VERIFY Antecedents: the client’s word.

Specimen. From a Preceda test matter whose parties never existed. Names are invented; the parentage, the address and the police station are withheld. The margin marks are the verifier’s statuses, set here as a still page.

  • quoted from the judgment The words are in the report, at the paragraph cited.
  • VERIFY marked for counsel What the record does not settle is left to you, in plain words.

02The reading

What the associate has read.

Counted, and rounded down. Where the corpus is silent, the draft says so.

Judgments
about 2,000,000

Chiefly the Supreme Court and the High Courts

Central acts
113

Section by section

Sections
about 14,000

Each quotable by number

The reporter, as of this edition

The courts
The Supreme Court of India and the High Courts, with some national tribunals, read as one reporter.
The new codes
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, read beside the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act they replaced.
The civil side
The Code of Civil Procedure, the Indian Contract Act and the Information Technology Act, among the 113.
Not yet held
The text of the Constitution. An article cited from it is marked VERIFY until it is.

03Edition I

The Founding Register.

Edition I admits the first hundred members. Each is entered in a numbered register, and the entry is theirs for good.

04Terms of admission

By request, by introduction.

  1. By request.

    Leave an address. Each request is entered with its own number, in the order it arrives, and Chambers writes to you with it.

  2. By introduction.

    A member may introduce a colleague. Introductions are given, never sold: they carry no fee, credit or discount.

  3. Priced for chambers, not for Big Law.

    Set for a practice with juniors, not a firm with a procurement desk. Founding members keep the price they are admitted at.

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