The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside an order of the Patna High Court summoning Sahara group chief Subrata Roy in an anticipatory bail case.
Roy was a third party in the bail application hearing. The High Court (HC) had asked Sahara to convey a plan for refunding the matured deposits of investors.
A Supreme Court bench of A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala said they noticed that the HC had kept aside the issue of considering the anticipatory bail application and instead issued directions to third parties(Roy) to appear before it. “This in our opinion is impermissible