High court extends stay on Shekhawat's arrest till Aug 2

JODHPUR: Rajasthan High Court has extended the stay on the arrest of Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in a case pertaining to the Sanjivani Credit Cooperative Society scam till August 2 after his counsels prayed for the time of three weeks to file a reply.

The extension came during a hearing by the single bench of justice Kuldeep Mathur on the application by the state seeking vacation on the stay on Shekhawat's arrest as it was an interim relief in the case. The state had on April 28 cited the investigation done so far by the investigating agency and submitted in the HC that Shekhawat is an accused in the FIR registered at the special police station of SOG and ATS in Jaipur. This development had come as a move of rectification of previous arguments in the HC by Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing the state, that Shekhawat was not an accused in any cases of the scam.