After 6 months in jail, AAP MP Sanjay Singh gets bail from SC in Delhi excise policy case

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New Delhi:Six months after Sanjay Singh was arrested, the Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader in the Delhi liquor policy case.. The bench comprisingJustices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and Prasanna B. Varale granted him bail after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted that his custody was no longer required...

His bail plea was rejected by the trial court in December last year, and by the Delhi High Court in February, after which he approached the Supreme Court...

Before the lunch break, thetop courturged Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju to seek instructions on whether the ED still requires Singhs custody..

While refusing bail in February, the high court hadobserved, Thus, prima facie, it is clear that the present applicant (Singh) was part of the preparation of the old excise policy and thereafter, the new excise policy was made to suit the co-accused(s) who were to pay kickbacks to the present applicant and co-accused(s) and the party concerned, from the profit so generated due to excise policy...

During the hearing Tuesday, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi told the court that Singh had not been named in the case initially, and that his name was added on an approvers statement..

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