High Court of Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, on Friday granted bail to main accused in the Nagrik Aapurti Nigam (NAN) scam Shivshankar Bhatt.
Bhatt got the bail after spending four long years in judicial custody. Official sources in High Court informed that Court of Justice Gautam Bhaduri granted bail to Bhatt, who was accused in multi-crore PDS scam and was allegedly involved in corruption on the name of distribution of subsidized rice at Rs 1 per kilogram.
Anti Corruption Bureau arrested Bhatt in February 2015 and seized cash and properties worth crores of rupees. At the time of arrest he was a manager in NAN.
In the raids conducted in 28 of his offices and hideouts, police seized properties worth more than Rs 3.64 crore and Rs 1.76 crore in cash.
Later, Bhatt, along with 26 others, was made accused in the scam and the police submitted a charge-sheet against 16 of the officers.
Notable, the names of former chief minister Raman Singh, his cook and family members were also surfaced in the scam.