High-profile Jail Buddies: Bhujbal, Mukherjea and Parekh
While Vijay Mallya is complaining about the condition of Indian jails, the rich and powerful under-trials, who end up at Arthur Road Jail (Mumbai), tend to be housed together and become jail-buddies. So Ketan Parekh, chief architect of the market manipulation that led to the crash of 2000-01, who was arrested under an order by the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) court for ignoring multiple summons, is now housed with Peter Mukherjea, former media star and chief honcho of Star TV and INX Media (facing trial for the murder of Sheena Bora, his step-daughter, along with wife Indrani Mukherjea) and Chhagan Bhujbal, former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, accused in the Maharashtra Sadan scam. 
 
All of them are lodged in barrack number 12, which, writes author and journalist Hussain Zaidi, has an interesting history. It was Mr Bhujbal who ordered the creation of a high-security cell in 2008 to house Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistan-based terrorist caught in the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai. After Kasab was hanged, the barrack was split into several cells which are now occupied by him, Mr Mukherjea and Ketan Parekh. 
 
Ketan Parekh, whose bail has been rejected several times, has now written to SEBI seeking a compounding of offences by paying the necessary fines and penalty. It may be the fastest way for him to get out of jail, having painted himself into a corner by showing utter disregard for court hearings. 
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