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2025 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 42617

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
BECHU KURIAN THOMAS, J
Y.C. Steaphen – Appellant
Versus
State of Kerala – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Shri Jimmy George, Shri A.S. Benoy, Shri Pearl K. Davis, Shri C.K. Jayakumar
For the Respondents: Sri Noushad K. A. (PP), Sri Dinesh Mathew J. Muricken, Sri Vinod S. Pillai, Shri Mohammed Thayib N.M., Smt. Nayana Varghese, Smt. Ria Varghese, Shri Jerry Peter, Smt. Sreeja V. (PP), Sri I.V. Pramod, Smt. Amrutha Diwakar

Table of Content
1. nature of allegations against the trustees of a trust. (Para 2 , 3 , 5)
2. court's considerations on anticipatory bail and prior case law. (Para 4 , 7 , 9)
3. arguments on financial misconduct and need of custodial interrogation. (Para 6 , 10)
4. core reasoning on conditions for anticipatory bail. (Para 8)
5. final ruling and conditions for bail. (Para 11)

BECHU KURIAN THOMAS, J.

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B.A. Nos. 5584 of 2025, 5585 of 2025, 5588 of 2025, 5591 of 2025 & 5650 of 2025 ……………………………………………………….….

Dated this the 29th day of July, 2025

COMMON ORDER

These bail applications are filed under section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (for short ‘ BNSS ’).

2. Petitioners in all these bail applications are the accused in various crimes before the Kumily Police Station. Petitioners in B.A. No. 5584 of 2025 is the accused in Crime No. 281/2025, petitioners in B.A. No. 5585 of 2025 are the accused in Crime No. 283/2025, petitioners in B.A. No. 5588 of 2025 are the accused in Crime No. 284/2025, petitioners in B.A. No. 5591 of 2025 are the accused in Crime No. 282/2025 and petitioners in B.A. No. 5650 of 2025 are the accused in Crime No. 208/2025. The

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