Rajpal Yadav doesn't have to walk into jail just yet.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the actor interim relief in a set of cheque dishonour cases, exempting him from surrendering to serve out a three-month sentence, but with a condition attached. He has to deposit Rs 5 crore with the court's Registry by Wednesday for that exemption to hold.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana passed the order. Petitions filed by Yadav and his wife, Radha Rajpal Yadav, were orally mentioned before the court by advocate-on-record Saurabh Trivedi, according to Bollywood Hungama and Bollywood Bubble.

"Subject to deposit of Rs.5 crores by the petitioners with the Registry of this Court by tomorrow. They are granted exemption from surrendering," the bench ordered, per Bollywood Bubble's report.

The petitions challenge a Delhi High Court order from July 10, when Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma upheld Yadav's conviction across seven cheque bounce cases and sentenced him to three months of simple imprisonment in each, to run concurrently. That's a fairly narrow window of actual jail time on paper, but the money attached to it is not small.

The High Court had directed Yadav to pay Rs 1.05 crore per case to the complainant, split between Rs 1,04,75,000 as compensation and Rs 25,000 to the state. Radha Yadav was separately ordered to pay Rs 5,51,380 in each of the seven cases. The court noted that Rs 2.25 crore had already reached the complainant during the proceedings, an amount it said should be adjusted against whatever remains owed.

The cases go back to disputes involving M/s Murli Projects Pvt. Ltd. And cheques tied to payments through the actor's production company. When the High Court upheld his conviction in July, it also gave Yadav a two-month window to move the Supreme Court, and suspended his sentence for that period. This latest order is what happens once that window starts running out.

It's not the first time Yadav's finances have made headlines alongside his legal troubles. Bollywood Hungama has previously reported the actor saying he currently owes "roughly Rs 25-30 crores," a figure that gives some sense of scale to the seven-case tangle now before the top court.

For now, the Supreme Court has only issued notice and kept the door open. The matter is listed for September 15, when the bench will take a closer look at whether Yadav's conviction stands, whether the sentence gets suspended further, and what happens to that Rs 5 crore sitting with the Registry.