Top industrialist, Lalit Mohan Thapar had been brought to Tihar because the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had found that his companies were involved in foreign exchange violations. He was the owner of several top notch companies including Crompton Greaves and lived in Delhi’s most posh area of Amrita Shergill Marg. The dingy cell and the amenities that came with it were obviously not going to go down very well with Thapar. On the very first day that Thapar was jailed, I got a call from Inspector General P.V. Sinhari at 4 am. His instruction was clear – I was to release Thapar immediately.
