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New Delhi, Dec 28: Anil Deshmukh, a former home minister for Maharashtra, was released from a Mumbai prison on Wednesday after serving nearly 13 months in a money laundering case.
On November 2, 2021, Anil Deshmukh was detained by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) following a protracted interrogation that lasted more than 12 hours.
Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh is released from Arthur road jail in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/a3OKktDrq8
— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2022
After being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, which denied the CBI’s request for further extension of the stay on Deshmukh’s bail decision, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was freed.
Leading NCP figures, like as Supriya Sule, Jayant Patil, Ajit Pawar, Chhaghan Bhujbal, and others gathered outside the Arthur Road jail to welcome him before his release.
Anil Deshmukh has been imprisoned for more than a year, according to NCP leaders who were waiting outside the jail, and none of the accusations made against him have been proven in court. The 73-year-old lawmaker had been granted bail by High Court Justice MS Karnik on December 12, but the ruling was suspended for ten days while the CBI sought time to appeal it to the Supreme Court.
However, because the supreme court is out of session, the investigation agency’s case would only be heard in January 2023.
Anil Deshmukh, the then-home minister of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) administration, was accused by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh of setting a goal for police personnel to collect Rs 100 crore from Mumbai’s eateries and bars each month.
