New Delhi: CBI on Saturday filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's bail order to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for his alleged involvement in a Rs 100 crore corruption case lodged by the investigating agency.

The appeal filed by the CBI is likely to be placed for hearing in the Supreme Court within a week, in view the sensitivity and importance of the case.

"The appeal filed by the CBI will likely come up for hearing in the Supreme Court within a week, seeing the importance and sensitivity of the Case," a Registry official of the Supreme Court said.

The Bombay High Court in its order on December 12, 2022, had given CBI 10 days’ time to appeal against the bail order.

A single bench of the Bombay High Court, comprising Justice M S Karnik, in its order, had directed Deshmukh to furnish a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh.

It had said that the order will be effective after 10 days as CBI sought time to appeal against it before the Supreme Court.

The bench had on Decmeber 12, granted bail to 73-year-old Deshmukh, after considering his submissions that he is a "septuagenarian suffering from several serious ailments."

Deshmukh, who has been lodged in the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai since November 2, 2021, had moved the Bombay High Court after a special CBI court on October 21 rejected his bail in the same case.

"I am a septuagenarian suffering from several serious ailments which have virtually incapacitated me to undertake ordinary pursuits of life without adequate medical treatment," Deshmukh said in his bail application.

"I am seeking benevolent indulgence of the court to admit him to regular bail in peculiar facts and circumstances which give rise to a reasonable inference that the entire proceedings are not only actuated with malice but also bereft of any legal sanctity," he added.

(With UNI inputs)