A court here Friday granted interim bail, till May 20, to BSP MP Dhananjay Singh, accused in the case of the torture of his maid, which led to her death.
Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma Friday granted bail to Singh, while asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs.1 lakh with one surety of the same amount.
Earlier on April 15, another court granted interim bail to the Bahujan Samaj Party MP in a rape case against him.
The MP's counsel S.P.M. Tripathi, while requesting the court to release his client on bail, has told the court that his father is ill and admitted in a hospital in Lucknow.
Singh, the sitting MP from Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur, was charge-sheeted Feb 1 along with his wife Jagriti for various offences, including destroying evidence and abetting murder and attempt to murder.
He and his wife, who is a dental surgeon in a government hospital here, were arrested in November 2013.
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