Mumbai: Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav is about to be incarcerated for six days more, after a Supreme Court ruling, today. Yadav had been sent to a 10 day-judicial custody by the Delhi High Court for filing a false affidavit.
The actor had ended up spending four days in judicial custody, from December 3, 2013 to December 6 2013, succeeding which a division bench of the High Court had suspended the sentence on his appeal.
Earlier this week, the Apex court had called out the Welcome Back actor for not paying money to Delhi based businessman, M.G. Agarwal of Murli Projects, who had filed a recovery suit against the actor and his wife over failure at repaying a loan amounting to rupees five crores, despite having given repeated undertakings before the court, citing his conduct as ‘inexplicable’.
The single judge bench that had been hearing the recovery suit, had taken exception to the allegedly forged affidavit filed by Yadav in December, 2013. The affidavit that apparently contained forged signatures of his wife, Radha Yadav, was dismissed by the panel, which was 'enraged’ after the comedian adduced the commercial failure of a movie as the reason behind his inability to pay back his dues.
The actor, who has been asked to surrender, immediately, will now be serving out his sentence at Tihar Jail.
