Rajpal Yadav files appeal, HC suspends sentence

Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav on Tuesday got temporary relief from the Delhi High Court, which suspended his sentence, following his appeal against its single judge’s order sending him to 10 days in jail for misleading the court in a recovery suit filed against him and his wife by a businessman. 42-year-old Yadav had spent three days in jail from 3 December to 6 December, the single judge of the high court had suspended his sentence and granted him time till today to file his statutory appeal. A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Vibhu Bakhru issued notice to Delhi-based company Murli Projects and sought its reply by 22 January, 2014 while hearing Yadav’s appeal against the single judge’s 3 December order. It said, ‘In the meantime, the sentence will remain suspended till its further order.’ The court also relaxed a condition in which the single judge had directed Yadav not to leave Delhi or the country without its permission.