India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to an opposition MP and chief of Delhi’s governing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in a cash laundering case.

Sanjay Singh was arrested in October in an investigation into the town’s now-scrapped insurance policies over alcohol gross sales.

Mr Singh, who denies the corruption allegations, had challenged his arrest in court docket.

On Tuesday, the court docket noticed that India’s monetary crimes company didn’t get better any unlawful funds from him.

“Fact of the matter is that money has not been recovered,” it stated and granted Mr Singh bail.

The court docket, nevertheless, dismissed a second plea by Mr Singh accusing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of arresting him “illegally”.

Mr Singh’s launch comes days after his colleague and Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested in the identical case.

The transfer sparked criticism from opposition events that the federal government was stifling them forward of the overall elections, that are due in few weeks.

ED officers say they’re investigating allegations that an alcohol sale coverage carried out by the Delhi authorities in 2022 – which ended the federal government monopoly – gave undue benefits to non-public retailers.

Several AAP leaders have been accused of taking bribes in trade of granting liquor licences to pick companies. Mr Singh was the second AAP chief to be arrested after Delhi’s former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in February 2023.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) denies any wrongdoing and says the instances towards its leaders are politically motivated.

Questions round monetary misconduct are a delicate matter for the AAP, which emerged from a serious motion towards corruption greater than 10 years in the past.

AAP leaders allege their get together is being “targeted” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Other opposition events within the nation too have accused the BJP of utilizing federal investigation businesses “to settle political scores” – a cost it denies.