Gegong Apang Gets Conditional Bail

Itanagar, Oct 9 : Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang, arrested in connection with the multi- crore PDS scam, was today granted eight week's conditional bail by the Gauhati High Court considering his health.

A division bench comprising justices I A Ansari and A C Upadhaya granted the conditional bail considering his health condition, said M S Chauhan, head of the Special Investigation Cell investigating the case.

Apang was directed not to leave the station without permission of the court and to cooperate with the SIC, he said.

Apang was arrested on August 24 by the SIC in the PDS scam case.

He was remanded in police custody for 14 days which ended on September 7. The court then extended his judicial remand till October 11 after rejecting his bail plea nine times.