NEW DELHI: Sahara chief Subrata Roy , sent to judicial custody till March 11 by the Supreme Court, ate a single roti with dal as he spent Tuesday night in Tihar Jail, IANS reported.

Roy has been lodged in barrack no 4 along with two directors of his company - Ashok Roy Choudhary and Ravi Shankar Dubey.

Jail officials said on Wednesday the three were heard talking till late in the night on the legal battle that lies ahead of them.

Roy reached the jail around 8pm on Tuesday and was sent for medical examination as part of a normal procedure.

The Supreme Court sent Roy and two others to judicial custody till they present a concrete proposal to return the balance of Rs 19,000 crore they collected from investors through optionally fully convertible debentures.

Sahara Group stocks fall 5%

MUMBAI: Shares of two Sahara firms fell by up to 5 per cent on Wednesday, after the group's chief Subrata Roy and two directors were jailed for a week for not complying with the Supreme Court order on refunding around Rs 20,000 crores of investors money, PTI reported.

Sahara One Media & Entertainment's scrip tanked 4.92 per cent to Rs 61.80, its lowest trading permissible limit for the day at the BSE. Shares of Sahara Housingfina Corporation were also down by 3.15 per cent touching its lower circuit limit of Rs 39.25.

Amid high drama in the apex court premises on Wednesday, where a Gwalior resident threw ink on Roy and blackened his face calling him a "chor", a two-judge bench minced no words to tell him, "You pushed us to the corner. Had you been serious, this position would not have arisen".

Making it clear that the order on custody of Roy and two other directors Ravi Shankar Dubey and Ashok Roy Choudhary was not in the contempt case, the court spared another director Vandana Bhargav because of her being a woman. It fixed March 11 as the next date of hearing.

