Sweety Singh's lawyer S. Maneshinde announced shortly after the ruling that he would file a bail application for his client Thursday.

Sweety Singh had been caught taking a bribe of Rs.10 million from a Nashik-based contractor in return for facilitating the withdrawal of a case under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes act. His father Buta Singh is chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes.

Sweety Singh was caught by CBI sleuths in New Delhi.

The CBI also nabbed three of his accomplices -- Anoop Bedi, Madan Solanki and Dukhsing Chauhan -- from Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.