Anil Deshmukh was given bail by the Bombay High Court on December 12, but the judge put a freeze on the order for 10 days as the CBI sought time to challenge it in the Supreme Court.
AMN / MUMBAI
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday was released on bail from Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison around 5 pm.
Following his release from jail, the 73-year-old Nationalist Congress Party leader said, “I have full faith in the judiciary….the high court has observed that I was implicated in a false case.”
A day earlier, the Bombay High Court had refused to stay its order granting him bail in a corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation.