#Individualized Culpability

The Kerala High Court granted pre-arrest bail to one accused while denying it to another in the same case, strictly conditioning the grant on the level of direct violence-denying bail to the accused who wielded an iron rod with intent to kill, while releasing the other who only restrained the victim. This establishes a precedent for tailoring bail conditions to individual culpability under BNSS, not just charge-sheet status or offence gravity.