The duo's bail applications had triggered a controversy after a judge had alleged that a Union minister had tried to influence him in the case.
The Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to a medical student and his father, whose bail applications had triggered a controversy after a judge had alleged that a Union minister had tried to influence him in the case.
Justice R Reghupathy, who had made the stunning revelation in an open court about attempts to influence him, later excused himself from the case.
The bail applications of Kriba Sridhar and his father C Krishnamurthy were then posted before Justice M Jeyapaul.
Granting anticipatory bail, Justice Jeyapaul directed Sridhar and Krishnamurthy to furnish personal bonds of Rs one lakh each and directed them to appear before the police daily.
The duo apprehended arrest in connection with a mark sheet scam.
CBI had filed the case against Sridhar, a third year student in a private medical college at Puducherry and his father for allegedly using the services of a Puducherry University official and a middleman to inflate Shridhar's marks.
The lawyer representing the father-son duo had later apologised to Justice Reghupathy.
Justice Reghupathy had made the remarks about attempts to influence him after a complaint from R K Chandramohan, counsel
for the father-son duo, that the judge was not granting anticipatory bail on the basis of prosecution submissions.
Upset over the advocate's remarks, Justice Reghupathy had said that a union minister had talked to him and asked the lawyer to tender an unconditional apology, failing which he said he would incorporate every detail in his order.
The judge had also requested the chief justice H L Gokhale to post the petitions of the two accused before another judge.
The controversy took a new turn when chief justice of India K G Balakrishnan stated that no politician had spoken to the justice, contrary to what the judge had said in the open court.
The Supreme Court chief justice, in a published interview, was quoted as having said no minister had called Justice R
Reghupathy and that he had come to know that a lawyer had claimed that some minister was interested in the case.
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