Supreme Court on Friday held that the law cannot be applied differently for elected representatives and common man and slammed the Orissa High Court for granting bail to BJP MLA Mohan Kumar Pradhan, a convict in the 2008 Kandhamal communal riots.Upholding the appeal filed by the widow of a deceased in the riots, a bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar asked the High Court to reconsider its decision for granting bail to the Udayagiri constituency MLA.The apex court said even though two other accused had also applied for bail, the high court chose to grant relief only to the legislator and not to others despite the fact that he was involved in various other cases.The bench said in a judgement that the High Court was obviously impressed by the singular fact that the respondent is a sitting MLA. The High Court did not record even a single reason confining the relief of releasing on bail only to the respondent, though there are two appellants in the appeal preferred challenging the judgment of the trial Court.