New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj are expected to go to Tihar jail to meet Sudheendra Kulkarni on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a Delhi court sent the former aide of LK Advani to judicial custody in connection with the Cash-for-votes case.
Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal ordered that Kulkarni be taken into judicial custody while rejecting his plea for interim bail on grounds of being a "whistle blower" in the case.
54-year-old Kulkarni, who had failed to appear before the court on two previous dates despite issuance of summons to him, appeared in court on Tuesday and sought interim bail on the ground
that he was not arrested by the Delhi Police even during the probe into the case.
After a day-long hearing, the court rejected Kulkarni's claim that he did everything to expose the rampant corruption and the horse-trading underway to win the July 22, 2008 confidence vote and sent him to judicial custody till October 1, which the court also slated for hearing of his regular bail plea.
The court, meanwhile, also reserved for Wednesday its order on the regular bail plea of Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, who is currently out of jail on an interim bail, which too was extended till Wednesday.
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