High-profile politician Amar Singh
was on Tuesday arrested and lodged in Tihar Jail in a sensational twist
in the cash-for-vote scam that rocked Parliament three years ago when
he made a dramatic appearance in a local court shortly after claiming to
be ill.
55-year-old
Singh was denied bail and arrested after Special Judge Sangita Dhingra
Sehgal remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days in the case in which
he has been chargesheeted by Delhi Police following Supreme Court's
displeasure over the "shoddy" probe.
The
arrest came when the former Samajwadi Party appeared a couple of hours
after pleading for exemption from personal appearance on medical
grounds.
The court also
rejected bail to former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh
Bhagora, who too appeared before the court responding to its summons for
their alleged role in the scam that was seen as an attempt to bribe MPs
for their vote in support of the confidence motion after the Left
parties withdrew support to the government on the nuclear deal.
BJP leader L K
Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, who has also been
chargesheeted in the case, did not appear in the court today as he is
stated to be abroad.
With the arrest of
Amar Singh, who has since been expelled from the Samajwadi Party,
Opposition parties including BJP, Left and the SP have demanded that the
police trace the source of the bribe and the beneficiary of the bribes.
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