On 27 August 2024 the Supreme Court granted bail to K. Kavitha in the Delhi excise-policy money-laundering case, holding that the first proviso to Section 45(1) PMLA — which relaxes the twin bail conditions for a woman — cannot be denied merely because the woman is highly educated, sophisticated, or a Member of Parliament or Legislative Assembly. The Court found the Delhi High Court had misread Saumya Chaurasia to confine the proviso to 'vulnerable women'. A digest of the pro-applicant pole of the s.45 proviso debate, the excise-policy context, and how it pairs against the restrictive discretionary reading.