IAS officer Sriram Venkitaraman was granted bail on Tuesday, only two days after he was sent to 14-days judicial custody in connection with a road accident which led to a journalist's death.

Venkitaraman was suspended on Monday for allegedly mowing down journalist KM Basheer last week. When the accident took place, Venkitaraman was returning from a party in an inebriated state. Even though Basheer was rushed to the hospital, he could not be saved. Basheer was the Chief of Trivandrum Bureau of Malayalam daily Siraj.