The Court was considering a plea in which a bail applicant claimed that he was not able to secure bail because trial courts were demanding that he produce different sureties for each of the 1726 crimes filed against him
The father argued that the allegations arose primarily because he had objected to his daughter following Korean pop group BTS which, according to him, was un-Islamic.
The Court was astonished on being told that the accused man's actual wife pretended to be his sister-in-law during a visit to fix his 'marriage' with a woman who was then tricked into parting with 150 sovereigns of gold.
Even though there is no absolute bar on filing a plea for pre-arrest bail after it has been dismissed once, such a plea can be entertained again only if there is a substantial change in the facts, Kerala High Court said.