Bench: When law says court, it was open for legislature to say Magistrate. There are other laws where special courts is mentioned. Here they’ve used expression court not magistrate. You are saying any court has power to grant extension. Why should it be? Why not special court?

J Bhat. If there were no intervening steps, you may have been correct. But if there’s a special court that’d be the only court.

J Lalit: today judge has granted extension. What if court had refused to grant extension?

ASG: then statutory bail.