Kochi: After being granted bail in a dollar case, former Principal Secretary of Chief Minister M Shivshankar has been released on bail. He was released from Kakkanad district jail but did not respond to media reports. He returned to Thiruvananthapuram from Kakkanad after 98 days in jail.
Shivashankar was granted bail by the Court on Wednesday. The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court (Economic Offences) granted bail to the former Principal Secretary of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, after directing him to furnish a bond of Rs 2 lakh, two sureties for the like amount, and appear before the investigating officers here every Monday.
Shivshankar was arrested on October 28 by the Enforcement. It was in a money laundering case. He was arrested in November on a gold smuggling charge and in January on a dollar smuggling case.
