NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday said courts were not expected to post the matters concerning liberty after a long date.The observation came from a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih after being informed that the Punjab and Haryana high court posted the hearing of a plea for temporary bail on medical grounds after two months.The petitioner’s counsel said he had approached the high court for the grant of temporary bail on the ground that the client’s two-year-old daughter needed urgent surgery.The high court, in its order passed on February 21, posted the matter on April 22, the counsel argued.Permitting the petitioner to move the high court for an earlier hearing, the apex court said: “In the matters of liberty, the courts are not expected to keep the matter at such a long date.”The top court asked the high court to advance the date and hear the issue at least with regard to the grant of temporary bail on the medical grounds of operation of the petitioner’s daughter.The petitioner’s counsel said he had already filed an application before the high court, where his regular bail was pending, for the advancement of the hearing but it was dismissed.Justice Gavai asked the counsel, “Now, with this observation, do you think that the high court will reject it?”The bench said if it would issue notice on the plea, the respondent would seek time to respond to it and the matter might get delayed.In the high court, the matter could be taken up expeditiously. “We expect the high courts to at least give some weightage to our request,” Justice Gavai observed.The counsel said the petitioner sought interim bail before the high court but the matter was kept for hearing along with the main petition in April.
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