Mumbai: Former Maharashtra minister Suresh Jain, arrested in the 2006 Gharkul housing scheme scam, on Saturday walked out of Dhule jail after the Supreme Court granted him bail.
On Friday, the apex court granted him bail considering that all the important witnesses in the case have been examined. Jain, who was the minister for housing in the Shiv Sena-BJP government in the 1990s, has stayed in jail for over four-and-half years so far.
He was arrested in March, 2012 for allegedly favouring a builder and indulging in irregularities to the tune of Rs 29 crore. Jain had allegedly favoured a firm which got the contract for constructing tenements under the Gharkul housing scheme in Jalgaon district.
Former municipal commissioner of Jalgaon Pravin Gedam had registered a complaint in this connection in 2006.
