Sahara Chief Subrata Roy Moves SC Challenging His Detention Wednesday March 12,2014

Sahara Chief  Subrata Roy on Wednesday March 12,2014 moved the Supreme Court challenging its order for detaining him for not depositing Rs. 20,000 crore with the market regulator.

Appearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, senior advocate Ram Jethmalani pleaded that the court should give an urgent hearing in the case as it pertains to Habeas Corpus. 

A writ of Habeas Corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee before the court to determine if the person’s imprisonment or detention is lawful. 

Ram Jethmalani, appearing for Subrata Roy, submitted that “there is some defect which needs to be cured urgently” and pleaded the court to hear him at 2 p.m. 

The bench said it will hear the case after lunch if the application filed by him gets numbered by the Registry.

 Note

The Sahara chief and his two directors Ravi Shankar Dubey and Ashok Roy Choudhary were sent to judicial custody on March 4 by a special bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar for not depositing the amount of Rs 20,000 crore with SEBI. 

On the last date of hearing on March 7,2014  the SC had asked the Sahara group to come out with “honourable proposal” for depositing Rs 20,000 crore of investors money and posted the hearing on March 11,2014 

The matter was then posted for hearing on March 11,2014 but the case got adjourned with no date of further hearing specified. 

The special bench had earlier expressed unhappiness over the proposal of Sahara on the refund of investors’ money.It had rejected Sahara’s proposal which had offered to pay Rs 2,500 crore within three days and the rest of the amount in five instalments by the end of July, 2015