HC grants bail to scam convict Congress leader Sunil Kedar

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to disqualified Congress MLA Sunil Kedar who was convicted in a bank scam last month, and also suspended his sentence temporarily.

Kedar, the five-term MLA from Saoner in Nagpur district, was sentenced to five years in jail on December 22, 2023, by a magistrate’s court here in a case related to irregularities at the Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank (NDCCB) of which he was chairman from 1999 to 2002.

Last week, the sessions court had rejected his plea seeking a stay to the conviction and sentence, and also refused him bail.