After 40 days out on the lam, it may finally be time for Chhagan Bhujbal to return to Arthur Road Jail as the HC dismissed his Habeas Corpus petition. The court also rejected his application for bail. Bhujbal had challenged his arrest on the grounds that the ED had not followed proper procedure while arresting him.

While dismissing the plea in a 149-page judgment, Justice Ranjit More said, “The petitioner (Bhujbal) is not some illiterate person, but an educated one, in the sense that he was a minister in the earlier state government.”