Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has been sent to 13-day judicial custody in the cash-for-votes scam. Amar Singh and three other accused - Faggan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Ashok Argal - will remain in jail till September 19.
The Tees Hazari court of Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal rejected Amar Singh's plea of ill-health and his interim bail application. While Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora are former MPs; Argal is also from the BJP and currently a Lok Sabha MP.
Earlier, Amar Singh tried to skip the court proceedings claiming that he was not well but the court asked his lawyer to ensure that he (Singh) was brought before the court.
BJP leader LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni also failed to personally appear before the court in response to its summons for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam.
Kulkarni's counsel sought the exemption on the ground that he was currently in the US and even court summons had not been served on him.
Amar Singh's lawyer Ashgar Khan sought exemption from appearance before the court urging that his client has recently undergone a kidney transplant and was suffering from various health problems including kidney infection and high blood pressure.
As the counsel filed a formal application for exemption for Singh from appearance, the court asked him to submit to it all the medical papers related to Singh's medical condition.
"Kindly show me the paper (medical report) when kidney transplant took place and what is his condition right now," the judge said.
At this, Singh's counsel sought two days to furnish all the medical papers to the court, but the judge ordered him to submit them by 12:30 pm on Tuesday itself, following which the Rajya Sabha MP appeared before the court.
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