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Supreme Court extends Mayawati's anticipatory bail

The Supreme Court today extended till August 7 the anticipatory bail granted by the Delhi high court to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati in the Rs 36.6 million fire-fighting floating pumps purchase case, registered against her by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The anticipatory bail granted by the high court was to expire on July 27.

While extending the anticipatory bail, the three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice M M Punchhi, Justices K T Thomas and S Rajendra Babu posted a special leave petition by her for hearing on August 7.

The SLP was directed against the high court order dismissing her plea for quashing of the FIR registered by the CBI in the corruption case where she has been alleged to have caused huge financial irregularities in the purchase of 143 fire-fighting floating pumps.

The high court had, on July 17, revoked its earlier order granting her anticipatory bail, but had given her ten days to obtain relief from an appropriate court.

In a 42-page order, a division bench of the high court had also imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on the Bahujan Samaj Party general secretary for filing the petition without any substantial grounds.

In her SLP, Mayawati challenged the order of the division bench which had found no ground to maintain the petition filed against the registration of the FIR by the CBI, pleading innocence.

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