Supreme Court on January 13 granted bail to Dr. Anand Rai, the whistleblower in the Vyapam scam. He was arrested in a case under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act over an alleged defamatory Facebook Post against the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister’s Deputy Secretary Laxman Singh Markam.
A Bench chaired by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said Dr. Rai has been granted bail subject to terms and conditions imposed by the trial court.
In April, last year, Laxman Singh Markam, Deputy Secretary at the CM secretariat, had lodged a complaint accusing Dr. Rai and State Congress chief spokesperson K.K. Mishra of trying to drag his name in the controversy surrounding the alleged leak of a question paper of MP Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET)-2022 held on March 25.
The Madhya Pradesh Police had arrested Dr. Rai based on a complaint lodged by Mr. Markam.
Anand Rai moved the Supreme Court against the judgement of the Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissing his bail plea in a matter related to the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Act (Prevention of Atrocity Act) 1989 (SC/ST Act). According to the petition, Dr. Rai has been incarcerated since November 15, 2022. Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal represented the petition filed by advocate-on-record Sumeer Sodhi.
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