New Delhi: Sahara chief Subrata Roy Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Tihar jail authorities - where he has been lodged since March 4 - to be shifted to a private hospital for the treatment of his ailments.
As the counsel for Roy mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Justice T.S.Thakur, the court said that it would take it up for hearing but asked Roy`s lawyer to serve the application on the government`s counsel.
"In the meantime if he needs any medical attention we can direct it," the court said as it appeared it would take a couple of days before the application comes up for hearing.
Roy and two Sahara directors are in judicial custody from March 4 for not complying with the 2012 order of the apex court to return investors money collected in 2008-09.
By a subsequent March 26 order, the court had asked Sahara to deposit Rs.10,000 crore - Rs.5,000 in cash and Rs.5,000 in bank guarantee - as part payment for investors` money that its two companies SIRECL and SHICL had collected through optional fully convertible debentures.
Roy and two other directors - Ravi Shankar Dubey and Ashok Roy Choudhary - are currently under custody since March 4 for the failure of SIRECL and SHICL to comply with the apex court`s Aug 31, 2012, and Dec 5, 2012, order to return investors` money, which in 2012 was Rs. 24,000 crore.
However, market regulator now says that this amount has shot up more than Rs.37,000 crore with Income Tax department making a tax claim of Rs.4,800 crore.