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10. Admittedly, the bail petition filed by the petitioner was dismissed on merits by this Court by the order dated 18.11.2024 in Crl.OP No.24490 of 2024. The relevant observations read as follows:

“8. As far as the judgments relied on by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor are concerned, the Hon'ble Supreme Court held that while dealing social economic offences, the Court meant to be very conscious and observed, the character of the accused, circumstances which are peculiar to economic offences constitute a class apart and need to be visited with a different approach in the matter of bail. The Economic offence having deep rooted conspiracies and involving huge loss of public funds needs to be viewed seriously and considered as grave offences affecting the economy of the country as a whole and thereby posing serious threat to the financial health of the country and also it is clear that the economic offender should not be dealt as general offender, because economic offenders run parallel economy and they are serious threat to the national economy. In the case on hand also, the allegations as against this petitioner are serious in nature and he was one of the Directors of the accused company. Therefore, the said case laws are squarely applicable to the present facts of the case.”