chennai the madras high court on monday granted conditional bail to former union telecom minister dayanidhi marans private secretary v gowthaman and two others in an illegal telephone lines case justice p devadas granted conditional bail to the three and directed them to appear before the cbi officers at 1030am every day they shall surrender their passport as well holding that maran who is the prime accused in the case might be politically and financially powerful the judge said it could not stand in the way of sun tv employees being granted bail on january 21 the cbi arrested gowthaman chief technical officer of sun tv s kannan and electrician k s ravi for their involvement in the illegal telephone lines laid to marans home during his tenure as minister according to the cbi the lines were used for commercial purposes by sun tv causing losses to the tune of several crores of rupees to bsnl and the exchequer