Mumbai, March 7 -- A sessions court here issued a non-bailable warrant against filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma on his failure to remain present in the court when it was hearing an appeal filed by him, challenging the lower court order which had awarded him three months simple imprisonment in a cheque bounce case, a lawyer said on Friday.
The session court while issuing non-bailable warrant also rejected his plea seeking suspension of the lower court order pronounced by the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) in Andheri, YP Pujari, on January 21, in the cheque bounce case.
He was sentenced to three months jail and was also directed to pay Rs 3,72,219 to the complainant within three months.
Last month, Varma had moved the sessions court, Dindosh...