New Delhi, May 28 -- The Rouse Avenue court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of former AAP MLA Naresh Balyan, who is an accused in the MCOCA case linked with an organised crime syndicate allegedly run by UK-based gangster Kapil Sangwan.

"The criminal nexus between a politician and a gangster is perhaps the most perilous threat confronting a nation and its citizens, and must be addressed with severity," the court said while rejecting the bail plea.

"Having dismissed the accused's claim of any jurisdictional error in the approval grant and having reviewed the material against the accused including the statements of witnesses, the retracted confessional statements of co-accused, and the audio recording of the accused with the ringleader K...