India, Feb. 8 -- The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a Mumbai resident arrested for allegedly posing as a Supreme Court lawyer and duping a builder of Rs.51 lakh.

A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan granted bail to Poonam Charandas Khanna primarily on the ground of her long incarceration. She had approached the apex court after the Bombay High Court rejected her bail plea on December 8, in connection with a cheating case registered at Kherwadi police station.

Arguing for Khanna, advocate Prastut Mahesh Dalvi, Pranay Saraf and Vidhi Pankaj Thaker, told the court that the accused was nearly 60-years-old and had been in custody for over two years, since January 2024, despite no considerable progress in the trial.

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