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A court granted bail yesterday former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Nirmal Yadav in the multi-million rupee cash-in-bag scam which rocked Chandigarh in 2008.
Yadav, who was also a judge in the Uttarakhand High Court, personally appeared before the trial court judge in the district courts complex in Chandigarh following an order by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
She furnished a bail bond of Rs25,000.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court asked her to be present at the next date of hearing on September 16.
Yadav, who arrived almost 30 minutes after the hearing had started in the court, did not speak to the media.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court was hit by the scam after a packet containing Rs1.5mn in cash was delivered on August 13, 2008, at the Sector 11 residence of the then newly-appointed high court Judge Nirmaljit Kaur.
She complained to the police and got a case registered.
Yadav was a sitting judge in the high court when the scam was reported.
The police later arrested the then Haryana additional advocate general Sanjeev Bansal, property dealer Rajiv Gupta and Delhi-based hotelier Ravinder Singh.
Bansal and Gupta told the police that the money was meant for Nirmal Yadav. They claimed another packet containing Rs1.5mn was separately delivered to Yadav at her Sector 24 official residence later after the first packet was wrongly delivered to the other woman judge.
Yadav, who went on leave after the controversy surfaced, was later transferred to the Uttarakhand High Court.
While the case was transferred from Chandigarh police to the CBI, the Supreme Court also set up a committee of senior judges to investigative the matter separately.
The CBI had filed a charge-sheet against Yadav for corruption, conspiracy, destroying evidence and creation of false evidence.
Besides the charge-sheet, the CBI also submitted a 126-page documentary evidence in the case.