Mumbai’s former mayor Kishori Pednekar got temporary relief after the city police told the Bombay High Court on Monday that they would not arrest her for two days in connection with an alleged scam in the purchase of body bags for Covid-19 victims, ANI reported. Pednekar approached the higher court after a sessions court rejected her anticipatory bail plea last week stating that she was accused of an economic offence involving a huge amount of public money.  

A single bench of Justice NJ Jamadar had taken up Pednekar’s plea for a hearing. The next hearing of the matter was then posted to Wednesday after the prosecutor, appearing for the police, said that the police would “hold its hands” and not take coercive action against Pednekar till September 6.