The Supreme Court today expressed shock over criminal appeals pending for over decades in high courts and convicts completing maximum sentence for the offence without getting bail during pendency of the cases.<br/>'<br/>A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and S Abdul Nazeer agreed to examine the matter and issued notice on a plea seeking grant of bail to those convicts whose pleas are not likely to be taken up for hearing in near future. <br/><br/>This is a troubling situation for us and a solution needs to be find out for speedy disposal of pending appeals in various high courts, the bench said.<br/>'<br/>The apex court, however, did not stay an order of April 26 of Madhya Pradesh High Court holding that pendency of appeals cannot be the only ground for grant of bail.<br/>