New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave bail to Congress leader and former Rajasthan minister Mahesh Joshi in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih passed the order on an appeal filed by Joshi challenging the Rajasthan High Court's August order denying him bail.

Joshi, 70, was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the federal probe agency after about seven-eight hours of questioning at its office in Jaipur.

The ED’s money laundering case stems from an FIR registered by Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) into the scheme that aims to provide safe and adequate drinking water through household tap connections.

The scheme was being implemented in Rajasthan by the state’s Public Health Engineering (PHE) department. Joshi was a minister of the department in the previous Ashok Gehlot government. PTI PKS PKS MIN MIN

Money laundering probe: appeal challenging High Court denial of bail under PMLA in Jal Jeevan Mission case. Appeal challenging a high court order denying bail under PMLA in an Enforcement Directorate money laundering investigation originating from an Anti Corruption Bureau FIR into alleged irregularities in the Jal Jeevan Mission; issues include custodial questioning, thresholds for interim liberty, and the role of the Public Health Engineering department in the alleged scheme.