Hyderabad:, Sept. 7 -- A special court for Anti-Corruption Bureau cases in Vijayawada on Saturday granted interim bail to YSR Congress Party parliamentarian PV Mithun Reddy so that he could exercise his vote in the Vice-Presidential elections scheduled to be held on September 9.

ACB court judge Justice P Bhaskar Rao, who reserved the judgement on Wednesday after hearing arguments on Mithun Reddy's bail plea, pronounced the order, granting him interim bail for five days.

The judge asked the MP to deposit Rs.50,000 as security under the guarantee of two individuals and directed him to surrender to the jail by 5pm on September 11. He was later released from Rajahmundry Central Jail, where he had been lodged in judicial remand since July 20...