India, Aug. 7 -- The Rajasthan High Court has granted bail to a 32-year-old woman accused in a double murder case, taking note of her prolonged pre-trial detention, the absence of direct evidence, and her vulnerable circumstances as a mother with no family support, a lawyer familiar with the case said on Thursday.

Justice Farjand Ali, while allowing the second bail application filed by Mariya, who has been lodged in Udaipur district jail since November 2023, noted that her continued incarceration would be "neither legally justified nor equitable."

The court observed that Mariya is the mother of a five-year-old son and has no immediate family to care for him.

"This innocent child, in the crucial formative years of his development, is de...