Updated On: 30 March, 2025 12:08 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai, who heard Hussain's bail plea, said that he had been in jail for more than four years while the maximum sentence for offence under Section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was seven years

Former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain. File pic
A court in New Delhi on Saturday granted bail to former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Councillor Tahir Hussain in the money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.
Hussain, however, will continue to remain in jail as he in an accused in the case regarding the alleged larger conspiracy behind the communal riots.