OVER three-and-a-half years since their arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), two Nagpur-based lawyers, brothers Satish and Pradip Uke, were granted bail by a special court on Tuesday. The court said that without going into the merits of the case, the two can be granted statutory bail, as they have undergone more than half of the maximum punishment–seven years–under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, with the trial yet to begin.

Special Judge R B Rote granted the two bail on furnishing sureties of Rs 2 lakh, along with other conditions.

The men were arrested on March 31, 2022, with the ED alleging that the two were involved in generating proceeds of crime on the basis of false and forged documents of properties in Nagpur. The ED alleges that the proceeds were used for sellin

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