Team News Riveting
Mumbai, December 12
The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to the former Maharashtra Home Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Justice M S Karnik pronounced the verdict today after reserving the plea on December 8.
Anil Deshmukh, 73, is currently under investigation by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate, following accusations made by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. The latter in a letter had charged Deshmukh of bribery. The Maharashtra Minister had remained untraceable from July 2021 for a period of more than three months and failed to appear before enforcement directorate five times during that period.
However, on November 1, 2021, he voluntarily came to the ED office in Mumbai after the Bombay High court on October 30 denied his plea to cancel ED and was formally arrested. Deshmukh will now be released from jail after a year-long judicial custody in the corruption case and connected money laundering case.
Deshmukh is facing two investigations by CBI for offence of corruption and the other by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the offence of money laundering in the same case.
Deshmukh was granted bail in the money laundering case by the Bombay High Court on October 4. However, in the CBI case, the special court refused him bail, and the same was challenged by Deshmukh before the High Court.
