By IANS
New Delhi : Sharada Jain, former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) councillor undergoing life term for killing fellow councillor Atma Ram Gupta five years ago, was Tuesday granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court to attend her daughter’s wedding.
A division bench, comprising Justices B.N. Chaturvedi and G.S. Sistani, granted Jain interim bail for three weeks, after which she will have to surrender before Delhi Police.
The bench asked the former councillor to give two sureties along with two bonds of Rs.20,000 each.
Her daughter’s wedding is slated for Jan 19.
Jain’s counsel Puneet Mittal Monday sought suspension of the jail term for two months.
On Dec 22, 2006, a city court had sentenced Jain, who was with the Congress party, and her brother Raj Kumar to life imprisonment for hatching a conspiracy and later killing Gupta in 2002.
The court also sentenced three Uttar Pradesh police personnel to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for helping them destroy evidence.
According to the prosecution, Jain allegedly had an affair with Gupta and wanted to take revenge after he started ignoring her and developed close ties with councillor Memwati Barwala.
On Aug 24, 2002 Gupta was kidnapped from a Congress rally at the Firozeshah Kotla ground here by hired killers, who murdered him in Ghaziabad, the police said.