The top court was hearing a matter pertaining to a tenant p- Surinder Singh Arora, who had failed to pay his landlord rent amounting to Rs. 50 lakhs.
The Supreme Court cracked its whip on a contemnor who failed to deposit Rs. 50 lakh as arrears of rent with the registry, despite an undertaking in a tenant-landlord dispute.
The top court was hearing a matter pertaining to a tenant p- Surinder Singh Arora, who had failed to pay his landlord rent amounting to Rs. 50 lakhs. Arora was facing a matter in the Delhi High Court for illegally possessing a three-storey house in West Delhi's Paschim Vihar area and not paying his rent.
The Delhi HC had already observed Arora's willful disobedience of it's orders and had ruled against him. Arora, had then moved the apex court, challenging the high court's order. In February, Arora had furnished an undertaking wherein he had promised to deposit the sum ordered with the registry within eight weeks.
However, on Friday, Arora had intimated that he was willing to pay the money, though he needed more time.
To this, the bench expressed its displeasure and said, "Why did you give undertaking to court, if you were not in a position to deposit? If you pay by Monday you will be allowed to go otherwise you will stay in jail," a bench led by the Chief Justice of India JS Khehar said and directed Supreme Court security to take him "to Tihar forthwith."
Arora, will now have to spend the weekend in jail and will probably be free on Monday if by then he pays the amount he had been ordered to do so.
Arora, is the second person to go to jail this week for failing to deposit money with the registry.
On Thursday, a bench led by Justice Dipak Misra held ex-journalist Praveen Swami in contempt when he failed to deposit Rs. 10 crores as fine in a matter connected with the SEBI-Sahara case.
At an earlier hearing, the international real estate firm had expressed its interest in buying Sahara's New York property, the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. To prove its interest, the court had directed the firm to deposit $750 million with the SC registry, which the firm then failed to.
At the last hearing, Swamy was fined when the real estate firm backed out of the deal to buy the Plaza. Unfortunately for Swamy, who was held guilty for contempt and directed to pay a fine of Rs 10 crore- which he failed to pay - the SC sentenced a jail term of one month.
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