Kolkata, April 30 -- A Delhi court on Thursday, April 30, granted Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder and director Vinesh Chandel bail a day after the West Bengal Assembly elections concluded on Wednesday, April 29.

I-PAC was the political consultancy hired by Mamata Banerjee's All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to manage their campaign for the Assembly elections.

However, just weeks before the major polling phases in the state began, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Chandel on April 13 in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam and coal pilferage in West Bengal.

Following the arrest, TMC leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, slammed the move as "politically motivated" to stall their campaign, ...