India, Sept. 26 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police for what it termed a prima facie abuse of the power of arrest in the case of Mamta Digvijay Singh, director of a construction firm accused in a corporate fraud of over Rs.1,000 crore. Calling the arrest "biased" and "contrary to established safeguards," the court granted Singh interim bail.

A division bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam Ankhad said Singh's arrest on September 10 appeared unjustified, as she had last recorded her statement before investigators on June 18 and had since cooperated with the probe. "It is not explained what was the compelling reason that she was arrested about three mo...