NEW DELHI: Carving out an exception to 'bail not jail' principle, Supreme Court has ruled that the right of an accused person to life and liberty should be protected, but it cannot be the sole ground to grant him bail when he is facing trial in a UAPA case for endangering national security and integrity. Dealing with CBI's challenge to bail granted by Calcutta HC to the accused who removed railway tracks, leading to derailment of Jnaneshwari Express and collision with a goods train resulting in the death of 148 people and injuries to 170 on June 9, 2010, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh said "individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to just exceptions, that is, the paramount considerations of national interest, sovereignty and integrity of the nation. " The scal

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