New Delhi, November 16: The Delhi High Court will on Wednesday give its order on the bail plea of Sudheendra Kulkarni, advisor to Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he was prime minister, and four other accused in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam that had rocked Parliament ahead of a trust vote.
On Monday, the HC had reserved its order.
The bail applications had been filed in the court of Justice ML Mehta by Kulkarni, former aide of MP Amar Singh Sanjeev Saxena, political activist Suhail Hindustani, and former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora.
Saxena is accused of delivering Rs 1 crore to Kulaste and Bhagora, as also to Ashok Argal, who continues to be an MP, under a conspiracy to buy their votes for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government in the July 2008 trust motion.
The court also reserved its order till today on Argal’s anticipatory bail. The Delhi Police have received Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar’s nod to proceed against Argal.
On July 22, 2008, Argal, Kulaste and Bhagora, waved wads of currency notes in the Lok Sabha just hours ahead of a trust vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal, alleging they were given the money to vote in favour of the Manmohan Singh government.
–Agencies