New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on the anticipatory bail plea of Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh who has been summoned as an accused in 2008 cash-for-vote scam. "The order is reserved. Both parties are directed to file their written synopsis within a week", Justice Suresh Kait said after hearing arguments for over an hour on behalf of the SP leader and Delhi police in the case. Initiating arguments on behalf of Singh, advocate Mukul Rohatgi said he has wrongly been summoned by the trial court as neither the parliamentary committee nor any of the three charge sheets filed by Delhi police portrayed him as an accused. "Moreover, the summoning of the accused without taking prior sanction from the Lok Sabha Speaker was illegal and cannot be done," Rohatgi said. "Neither any FIR was filed against my client nor his name appeared in any of the three charge sheets in the case and even the parliamentary inquiry committee, which had probed the alleged bribery scandal to win MPs' vote, did not name him," he said. "The court has summoned me without any basis, which is not permissible in law. There was no additional evidence found against Singh. The CD, in which he was seen talking to the accused person, is the only evidence against him, he argued. Meanwhile, another bench of the High Court today granted bail to six accused including Sudheendra Kulkarni and questioned the foundation of the case.
