Justice Aditya Nath of the Lucknow Bench passed this order on an application for bail moved on behalf of Singh.
Opposing the bail, the prosecution submitted that many engineers had specifically accused Singh of accepting bribe of Rs 5 crore on April 2, 2011.
Singh, the Labour Minister in the Mayawati cabinet, was arrested on October 3, 2012 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 5 crore to allot LACCFED, a state-controlled cooperative body, the contract of building labour shelters across Uttar Pradesh.
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