"Judgement reserved," Justice Mukta Gupta said after concluding hearing the arguments on behalf of the alleged middleman, Sukesh Chandrashekar, and the Delhi Police which has opposed the grant of bail to him.
The police argued that his conduct, even while in custody, had shown scant respect for the law and therefore, he should not be granted the relief.
It told the court that three more cases have been registered against Chandrashekar while he was in custody and there are a total of 24 FIRs lodged against him.
The lawyer also claimed that the accused had made a call to the trial court judge hearing the case, impersonating as a person from a Supreme Court judge's office and asked her to release him on bail.
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The call was traced to a constable's phone while Chandrashekar was in custody, the prosecutor alleged.
Senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog and advocate Anand Pandey, appearing for Chandrashekar, contended that the alleged main beneficiary, Dhinakaran, was already out on bail and the same relief was granted to the policemen.
Chandrashekar, arrested on April 16 last year, has been denied bail once by the high court and thrice by the trial court.
The high court had on June 15, 2017, rejected his bail plea on the ground that the police had seized a fake Rajya Sabha member ID card from his possession.
A charge sheet was filed by the police before the trial court in the case on July 14, 2017, alleging that Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar had conspired to bribe Election Commission (EC) officials to get the 'two leaves' symbol for their party.
Chandrashekar has also moved a separate plea in the high court alleging he was tortured despite an order not to subject him to violence inside the Tihar Jail where he is in custody.
The claim was denied by the jail authorities, who said it was an "afterthought of the shrewd mind of the accused".
Chandrashekar was arrested for allegedly taking money from Dhinakaran to bribe EC officials to get the AIADMK 'two leaves' symbol for the Sasikala faction in a by-election to the R K Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu.
The EC had frozen the AIADMK's symbol after the two factions -- one led by Dhinakaran's aunt Sasikala and the other by former chief minister O Panneerselvam -- staked a claim to it.
Mallikarjuna was arrested for allegedly facilitating a Rs 50 crore deal between Dhinakaran and Chandrashekar.
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