Chairman of MP State Trade Promotion Board, Madan Mohan Gupta was almost sent to jail on Tuesday after JMFC Kamlesh Markundiya rejected his bail plea. Gupta has a status of Minister of State, and heads the Rewa edition of prominent Hindi daily. Ex-assembly speaker Shriniwas Tiwari filed a defamation suit against him under section 469, 500, 501, 505 and 101B. for a news published by his newspaper in 1989. An arrest warrant was issued against him. Gupta after rejection of his bail approached the district judge after which he managed to get bail.