Vindoo, Meiyappan Get Bail; Sreesanth Doesn't

Mumbai: A Mumbai court  granted bail to CSK team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh Randhawa and two others while in Delhi, bail was denied to Test cricketer S. Sreesanth after police said it had invoked the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against him in the IPL betting and spot fixing scam.

Meiyappan and Vindoo, hawala operator Alpesh Patel and bookie Prem Taneja walked out of the police lock-up after their conditional bail formalities were completed, including furnishing bail bonds of 25,000 each.

As Meyappan, son-in-law of N. Srinivasan, who had stepped aside as Indian cricket board president and Vindoo came out, they were mobbed by a waiting media contingent but they declined to speak.

Granting them bail, Additional Metropolitan Magistrate M.N.Saleem imposed conditions like preventing them from leaving the country and reporting to the police station every alternate day.

The bail order came a day after they were sent to judicial custody  which the accused followed up with bail applications. However, the court had reserved its orders in the matter and posted them for hearing.

Their lawyers argued that their clients' offences were of a b’ilable nature and they had already spent sufficient time in police custody.

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