The Supreme Court granted bail to former bureaucrat Arun Kumar Tripathi despite strong opposition from the Enforcement Directorate, which arrested him for money laundering. The court criticized ED's approach akin to misuse of dowry laws and emphasized that PMLA should not be misused to keep individuals in jail.
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