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A Bench of Justices B N Chaturvedi and G S Sistani directed her release on bail on the strength of two sureties submitting bonds worth Rs 20,000 each in order to participate in the wedding fixed on January 19.
The sessions court had on December 22, 2007, sentenced Jain and her brother Raj Kumar to life imprisonment for conspiracy and murder of Gupta in 2002.
Jain allegedly was close to Gupta before she found him ignoring her for another woman councillor, Memwati Barwala.
Gupta was kidnapped from a Congress rally at Ferozeshah Kotla ground on August 24, 2002 at the behest of Jain and murdered in Ghaziabad, as per the prosecution.
His body was found seven days later in Bulandshar district after a joint manhunt by the Delhi and UP police, prosecution had claimed.
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