Cash-for-votes: Amar Singh gets bail till Sept 19

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New Delhi, Sep 15, 2011: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh has been granted interim bail till September 19 in the cash-for-votes scam. The former Samajwadi Party leader was arrested on September 6 in the case and sent to Tihar Jail in New Delhi.

The Tees Hazari Court of Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal granted bail to Singh while asking him to apply for regular bail on September 19. According to the bail conditions Singh cannot travel abroad, surrender his passport, and needs to furnish a personal bond and surety of Rs 2 lakh.

Singh will remain at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for next few days and the doctors have been ordered to report about his day-to-day condition.

His lawyers had argued that Singh was not keeping good health and so needed bail.

Tihar Jail authorities and AIIMS had submitted their respective report on Singh’s medical condition. The jail authorities said that Singh was in need care under an institution that can provide super speciality care, preferably at the AIIMS.

The report recommended that the Rajya Sabha MP needed treatment ’in view of multiple ailments and post renal transplant state’. The urine sensitivity reports of Singh were also submitted.

Singh has been suffering from UTI, increase serum creatinine, vitamin B12 deficiency and increased TSH.

The AIIMS report said Amar Singh developed severe abdominal pain and he is prone to infection as he had under gone renal transplant.

Singh has been complaining of burning sensation and decrease in urine output and diarrhoea over the last few days. He has had fever and it has been diagnosed that his white blood count has increased.

Singh had vomiting and persistent Tachycardia and for anxiety and restlessness a psychiatrist has also been consulted.

All the accused arrested in the cash-for-votes scam were remanded to judicial custody till September 19 and the court will take up their bail application on that day. The others who have been arrested include former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora along with middleman Suhail Hindustani.

Hindustani allegedly organised a meeting of some BJP MPs with Congress members to bail out the Central Government during the 2008 trust vote.

 

Courtesy: CNN-IBN