Supreme Court grants bail to former Rajasthan Minister in Jal Jeevan Mission case
The Justices ordered the release of Mukesh Pathak, another accused, setting aside an August 13 order of the Rajasthan High Court denying regular bail
The Supreme Court of India has granted bail to former Congress Minister Mahesh Joshi in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission scam, observing that prolonged pre-trial detention cannot be allowed to “degenerate into punishment without trial” in breach of constitutional guarantees. The court also released Mukesh Pathak, another accused in the case, setting aside an August 13 order of the Rajasthan High Court denying them regular bail.
The allegations against the two ministers stem from an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) probe into alleged irregularities in tenders floated by Rajasthan’s Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) under the Jal Jeevan Mission.
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