Subrata Roy moves plea for medical treatment in SC

Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy on 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 Sahara India Real Estate Corp Ltd (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corp Ltd (SHICL) to comply with the apex court's August 31, 2012, and December 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.