India, Oct. 18 -- Former Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC) commissioner Anilkumar Pawar was released from prison on Thursday night even as the Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing on the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) special leave petition (SLP) challenging the Bombay High Court's declaration of Pawar's arrest as illegal.

"The Supreme Court refused to hear the ED's SLP urgently to stay the SC order, saying the agency had registered the ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report) four years after predicate offences were registered and therefore there was no urgency , and that the HC's order was detailed," Pawar's counsel, advocate Ujjwalkumar Chavhan, told Hindustan Times. The SLP is likely to be heard on October 27....