New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- A Delhi court has granted bail to eight accused in a Customs case concerning alleged smuggling of 23 gold chains weighing 6.495 kg and valued at approximately Rs 9.90 crore, observing that there was no personal recovery from any of the accused and no independent material, at this stage, specifically connecting them with the recovered gold.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta passed the order on October 5 on eight bail applications filed under Section 480 of the BNSS. Advocate Pradeep Rana appeared for two of the applicants, while other counsel represented the remaining accused.

Rana and the defence counsel submitted that the applicants had been illegally detained even before their formal arrest and subjected to c...