2020 Delhi riots: Courtroom grants bail to Tahir Hussain in cash laundering case

A Delhi courtroom on Saturday, 29 March, granted bail to former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain within the money-laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.

Hussain, nevertheless, will proceed to stay in jail as he’s an accused within the case relating to the alleged bigger conspiracy behind the communal riots as effectively.

Further periods decide Sameer Bajpai, who heard Hussain’s bail plea, stated that he had been in jail for greater than 4 years, whereas the utmost sentence for the offence underneath Part 4 of the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) was seven years.