New Delhi, May 25: The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail on medical grounds to Manoranjana Sinh, the estranged wife of former Union minister and senior Congress leader from Assam Matang Sinh, in the multi-crore Saradha scam.

A vacation bench of Justices P.C. Pant and D.Y. Chandrachud, rejecting Manoranjana's bail plea and claim of innocence, asked her to move the Calcutta High Court for any relief.

One of the counsels for Manoranjana, when contacted, refused to share a copy of her bail application or the medical grounds on which the bail was sought. The advocate said he could share the details only if Manoranjana, who is now in judicial custody, agrees to it.

Though senior counsel Rekha Palli, appearing for Manoranjana, told the court that the accused was suffering from serious health problems and needed constant medical attention, the apex court was not convinced.

Palli told the court that the accused was in custody for over seven-and-a-half months and her name figured only in the fifth chargesheet filed by the CBI. However, a CBI counsel present in the court opposed her argument and said Manoranjana was rarely in the jail as she was mostly in hospitals claiming illness.

After the brief arguments, the bench asked the accused to approach Calcutta High Court for relief.

"You can approach the vacation bench there," Justice Pant said, while rejecting the bail plea and the argument that the Calcutta High Court was on vacation.

Manoranjana was arrested in October last year while Matang Sinh was arrested by the CBI on February 1 last year for their alleged involvement in the scam. Manoranjana's company GNN Ltd had allegedly received Rs 25 crore from Saradha Chit Funds.

A former journalist, Manoranjana is believed to have told the CBI that she got licence from the NDA government in 2003 for floating the television channel NE TV through a holding company called Positiv TV. Matang was the director of the television company and he subsequently expelled her in 2008.

The CBI claimed that the Sinhs had raised huge loans from banks to set up their broadcast business, which hadn't been fully paid off. While the television business flourished initially, it began incurring losses as competition mounted in subsequent years.