https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=763492 Bail conditions must secure attendance and protect the trial, but they cannot be so onerous that they effectively defeat release. In an alleged GST offence involving fraudulent input tax credit and misuse of GST credentials, the court treated a compulsory cash deposit as an excessive precondition on bail. The Rs. 1 crore deposit requirement was set aside as unjustified, while the seriousness of the allegations supported less burdensome safeguards. The substituted conditions required the accused to surrender the passport, produce it before the trial court, and not leave India without the court's permission. en-us Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=763492 Bail conditions must secure attendance and protect the trial, but they cannot be so onerous that they effectively defeat release. In an alleged GST offence involving fraudulent input tax credit and misuse of GST credentials, the court treated a compulsory cash deposit as an excessive precondition on bail. The Rs. 1 crore deposit requirement was set aside as unjustified, while the seriousness of the allegations supported less burdensome safeguards. The substituted conditions required the accused to surrender the passport, produce it before the trial court, and not leave India without the court's permission. Case-Laws GST Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=763492