India, June 5 -- The Bombay high court on Monday granted bail to a woman arrested in a Rs.2.45 crore cheating case, on humanitarian grounds as she had two minor children under her care.

The cheating case against the woman, Nilam Divesh Narodiya, was registered on February 25. Narodiya's husband and two others were also named as accused of forging documents and cheating various complainants of crores of rupees. They were arrested on April 4 and remanded to police custody till April 11 before being transferred to judicial custody. After her bail application before the Nashik sessions court was rejected on May 7, Narodiya approached the high court.

Advocate Jaydatta Khoche stated that her custody was irrelevant in the case. He submitted th...