Senior BJP leader and former union finance minister Yashwant Sinha was granted bail by a Hazaribagh court in Jharkhand, an official said on Wednesday.

Sinha moved the bail petition on Tuesday, but arguments in the case were deferred till Wednesday as top party leader L.K. Advani was scheduled to meet him on Tuesday.

After meeting Sinha in jail on Tuesday, Advani did not rule out the possibility of a larger role for him in the state. Advani had also appealed him to seek bail and lead the agitation in the state.

Sinha was arrested on June 2 while he was leading a demonstration against the state's poor power scenario and had locked up officials of the electricity board.

He was presented before the court on June 3 where he refused to seek bail and was sent to judicial custody.

On Monday, Sinha's judicial custody was extended till June 28.