Sanjay Raut gets bail soon after being sentenced to 15-day jail in defamation case
A magistrate court in Mumbai also suspended the sentence of the firebrand Shiv Sena leader to allow him to file an appeal.
A magistrate court in Mumbai also suspended the sentence of the firebrand Shiv Sena leader to allow him to file an appeal.
There is a huge expectation in the party that Balaji will regain his berth in the Stalin ministry and party legal eagles as well as senior leaders made it clear that there is no bar on his becoming a minister now.
The Supreme Court had granted him bail on September 17, instructing the Sessions Court to fix the terms and conditions of his release.
Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh on Saturday accused the BJP of spreading lies on the bail conditions of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and categorically said the Supreme Court (SC) has not imposed any restriction on Kejriwal.
Several party leaders on social media platform X hailed the decision and called it as a testament to the supremacy of the Constitution.
Welcoming the bail granted to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Supreme Court in the excise policy scam, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav called it a victory for the Constitution.
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, reserved its order on incarcerated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea for bail and against arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an alleged corruption case rooted in now scrapped 2021-2022 Delhi liquor policy case.
Noting that Nair is in jail for the last 23 months, a bench of Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice SVN Bhatti said, “The universal proposition of bail being the rule and jail being the exception will be entirely defeated if the petitioner is kept in custody as an under trial for a long duration.”
Granting bail to Kumar, a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan noted that he is in custody for 100 days and chargesheet has already been filed in the case.
Prem Prakash who is in incarceration for the last 18 months, had moved the top court against Jharkhand High Court order denying him bail in the matter.
