Sampangi was released from jail after the Lokyukta court accepted the sureties and issued the bail orders in pursuant to the conditional bail granted by the High Court yesterday.
Justice V Jagannathan granted conditional bail to Sampangi, allowing a criminal appeal filed by him seeking quashing of the recent conviction and sentence by the Lokayukta court, on his executing a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of the like sum.
Several supporters of Sampangi were present when he walked out of the jail.
On June 2, Lokayukta court Judge N K Sudhindra Rao had convicted and sentenced Sampangi to three and a half years rigorous imprisonment and slapped Rs 1 lakh fine, besides ordering extension of the RI by six more months in case he failed to pay up.
Sampangi, who represents KGF assembly constituency, was trapped by Lokayukta police on January 29, 2009 while accepting Rs 50,000 in cash and Rs 4.5 lakh by cheque from Farooq, a businessman to settle a civil dispute.
