The applicant, Shiva @ Shubham Hiralal, sought regular bail before the Gujarat High Court in connection with an FIR registered at Rander Police Station, Surat City, for offences including murder (Section 302 IPC), voluntarily causing hurt (Section 323 IPC), and Section 135 of the Gujarat Police Act. The prosecution alleged that the applicant and a co-accused assaulted and killed a deceased person named Chitranjansing Bhumihar using an axe, knife, and blades over a dispute regarding Rs. 2,00,000 allegedly kept with the deceased. The Court found that the applicant was not named in the original FIR, no direct evidence of conspiracy or overt act was established, the only incriminating material was a weak extra-judicial confession recorded seven to eight months after the incident, and the trial was already underway with no recovery pending. Applying the principle that 'bail is the rule and jail is the exception' and the right to personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, the Court allowed the bail application.