Sundar Menon v. State of Kerala
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory-type bail under Section 482 BNSS, Kerala High Court 2025; Sundar Menon; Crime Nos. 1724/2024, 378/2025, 448/2025, 499/2025, Town West Police Station, Thrissur; Sections 406 & 420 IPC; Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act 2019; Heewan Nidhi Limited; Heewan Finance Limited; deposit fraud/economic offence; bail is the rule, jail the exception; arrest not mandatory merely because lawful; surrender and interrogation with release-on-arrest directions; bond Rs. 50,000 with two solvent sureties; recoveries while on bail (Sushila Aggarwal); cancellation of bail on violation; Chidambaram P v Directorate of Enforcement; Siddharth v State of UP; Joginder Kumar; Manish Sisodia v CBI; Anzar Azeez v State of Kerala.
What did the court decide?
All four bail applications allowed: petitioner to appear before the Investigating Officer within two weeks and undergo interrogation; if arrested thereafter, to be released on bail on a bond of Rs.50,000/- with two solvent sureties each for the like sum, subject to conditions (appearance as required, cooperation, no inducement/threat/promise, no leaving India without permission of the jurisdictional Court, no similar offence), with bail cancellable by the jurisdictional Court on violation.