Sahara chief Subrata Roy arrested in Lucknow

 

In a dramatic turn of events, Sahara chief Subrata Roy was arrested on Friday morning in Lucknow, after the Supreme Court turned down his plea for house arrest.
Declining to urgently hear Subrata Roy's plea to allow him to be with his "ailing mother, the apex court said it is not possible for the special bench assembled today to hear it.
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani informed the Supreme Court that Subrata Roy has been taken into police custody.
Jethmalani pleaded to the apex court to consider recalling non-bailable warrant against Subrata Roy.
“Subrata Roy wilfully submitted himself before Lucknow police and he is cooperating with all authorities,” his son Seemanto Roy said while addressing a press conference in Delhi.
“Sahara chief very attached to his mother... her condition remains fragile and he was hoping for a Supreme Court relief,” Seemanto added.
Earlier in the morning, Sahara chief Subrata Roy said he is not absconding from arrest and is ready to "unconditionally follow" whatever direction the Supreme Court gives him today.
A day after the police visited his home in Lucknow to arrest him as per Supreme Court's orders but failed to find him there, Roy said he is still in Lucknow and had gone out for sometime to consult "a panel of doctors".
Roy said he has "already informed police to do their duty".
Through a statement signed by him, Roy also appealed to the Supreme Court to allow him to be with his "ailing mother under house arrest till March 3, 2014", while adding that he was ready to reach Delhi even today, if court wants him to do so.
Issuing a non-bailable warrant against Roy, the Supreme Court on February 26 asked the police to arrest him and present before the court on March 4.
Raising an emotional pitch, Roy said he was a "law abiding citizen" and not the one who will abscond.
"Last evening I had gone out of Sahara Shahar, Lucknow, to consult with a panel of doctors with certain medical reports of my mother and then I had gone to a lawyer's house also," he said.
Armed with Supreme Court's non-bailable warrant,

Tanay Tapas
PGDM 1st
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