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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has refused to extend the stay on its order granting bail to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), following which his There is a possibility of coming out of jail today i.e. on Wednesday. Justice M.S. Justice MS Karnik had granted bail to the 73-year-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader on December 12, but the CBI sought time to challenge it in the Supreme Court and the court stayed the order for 10 days. was banned for
The probe agency has moved the court, but its appeal will be heard only in January 2023 as the court is on winter break. The High Court had last week extended the stay on the bail order till December 27 on the request of the CBI. The probe agency had on Tuesday sought one more extension of the stay.
Deshmukh’s counsels Aniket Nikam and Inderpal Singh claimed that the CBI was trying to subvert the earlier order of the High Court, which had said that it would not be extended further under any circumstances. The vacation bench of the High Court, after hearing the arguments, had said, “Further time cannot be extended.” His lawyers told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ that the court has refused to extend the stay, so he can be released on bail on Wednesday.
The high court, while granting bail to Deshmukh, had noted that the CBI did not record any statement, except that of sacked police officer Sachin Waje, which indicated that money was being extorted from bar owners in Mumbai at the behest of the NCP leader. . Deshmukh’s bail application was rejected by a special CBI court last month, following which he moved the high court. He is in jail since November 2021. He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money laundering case.
He was arrested by the CBI in April this year in a corruption case. Deshmukh has denied the allegations leveled against him. He is currently in judicial custody at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. The High Court had granted him bail in the ED case in October. Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh alleged in March 2021 that the then Home Minister Deshmukh had given police officers a target of collecting Rs 100 crore every month from restaurants and bars in Mumbai. (agency)
