Vikram Bhatt and his wife, Shwetambari Bhatt, were taken into custody by the Rajasthan Police in Mumbai on December 7, 2025. The couple faced imprisonment in connection with a Rs 30 crore cheating case, following which they were granted bail in February 2026. Months later, after his bail, the filmmaker has recalled his time in jail, revealing that he fell seriously ill in jail while spending three weeks at Udaipur Central Jail during the biting January cold.

Vikram Bhatt recalls falling ill in jail

Vikram Bhatt took to his Instagram handle on Tuesday, April 14, to reveal that he woke up one night in Barrack No. 10 shaking uncontrollably with fever. He says despite being under four blankets, he continued to shiver, as fellow inmates found extra blankets for him while he took a paracetamol and hoped the fever would go away, but it did not.