Anil Deshmukh sent to 14-day judicial custody, told to eat 'jail food first'

A Mumbai court on Monday sent former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, who has been arrested in a corruption case, to judicial custody for 14 days.

The court turned down his request for home-cooked food. "You eat jail food first. If not, then I will consider," the court said.

The court, however, accepted his appeal for a bed in view of his medical condition.

Deshmukh was booked for money laundering by ED after former Mumbai police commissioner Parambir Singh alleged that he as minister gave police target ti collect Rs 100 crore a month.

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The ED has claimed Deshmukh collected Rs 4.70 crore from various bars and restaurants in Mumbai through dismissed police officer Sachin Waze.

Deshmukh had refuted these allegations earlier and said the agency's whole case was based on malicious statements made by a tainted cop (Waze).