New Delhi: The owner of one of India's biggest confectionary chains, Haldiram's, will stay in jail for now.
Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was sentenced, along with four others, to life in prison in January, 2010, for conspiring and attempting to murder a tea vendor in 2005. The vendor had allegedly refused to move his tea stall out of the ground floor of a building bought by Agarwal, who planned to set up a food court there.
Agarwal allegedly offered the tea stall owner cash, then resorted to threats, and finally, hired a contract killer to shoot him. Instead, it was the vendor's nephew who was shot. Luckily he was hit in the leg and managed to escape.
Agarwal was sentenced by a Kolkata court.
The Supreme Court has asked Agarwal to ask the Calcutta High Court for bail. Though that court has already rejected Agarawal's appeal for bail, the Supreme Court has said his request will be heard again.
Agarwal's lawyers have been arguing that the Haldiram's owner is innocent.