ENACTMENT No. 9 Of 1962 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT
PART III - RELIGIOUS COURTS Procedure in Criminal Proceedings
Section 59. Bail and remand.
(1) When any accused person is produced before the Court it may proceed to hear the charge against such person or may adjourn or postpone the case on such terms as it thinks fit and for such time as it considers reasonable and may grant bail to such accused person. Such bail may be taken in cash or by bond with or without sureties. The Court may on issuing a warrant of arrest authorise the police to grant bail on such terms as the Court may prescribe.
(2) If the hearing of the charge against any accused person is adjourned or postponed, such person shall, unless bail is granted, be remanded by warrant of the Court in custody and detained in prison pending trial.
(3) No Court shall remand any accused person in custody for a term exceeding eight days at a time.
(4) The trial of any accused person detained in prison shall take place at the earliest possible time and in priority to all other work of the Court, even though specially fixed for hearing.